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immaturity

[im-uh-choor-i-tee, -toor-, -tyoor-, -chur-] / ˌɪm əˈtʃʊər ɪ ti, -ˈtʊər-, -ˈtjʊər-, -ˈtʃɜr- /
NOUN
childhood
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The company’s performance was affected by revenue immaturity of its new routes at Milan Linate and Rome Fiumicino airports, they add.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 29, 2026

Despite this, he agreed Mahek's "youth and her acknowledged immaturity were given far too little weight", and should have "exerted a substantial downward pressure on the minimum term".

From BBC Oct. 24, 2025

Paul ranted against the “petty vindictiveness” of the move, how “the level of immaturity is beyond words,” how he had lost “a lot of respect” for Trump, and how it wouldn’t stop him.

From Slate Jun. 14, 2025

The point of all this is to inflict so much mediocrity and immaturity on federal workers that they quit.

From Salon Jan. 31, 2025

“Your dad’s cool,” Connor said, clearly impressed by my dad’s immaturity.

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling

They were like the mom and dad of our friend group: very steady, and mature in a way that felt like a rebuke to our own high school immaturities.

From Slate Jul. 16, 2019

“With all the immaturities, imperfections, uncertainties that are reflected in teenagers.”

From MSNBC Aug. 24, 2015

At the age of 32, novelist William Vollmann displays the exasperating immaturities of a precocious teenager.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite some immaturities of style, it is an interesting commentary on the value of varying kinds of education.

From Time Magazine Archive

I dropped my backpack on the floor because I knew it’d startle her, and even though there were only the next fifty-some summer days between me and high school, I wasn’t above these immaturities.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth




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