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maturity
Alternative clues for the word maturity
- Ma gets you to replace mobile at last: it’s beginning to yellow with age
- Sign of adulthood
- Full development
Word definitions for maturity in dictionaries
Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In psychology , maturity is the ability to respond to the environment in an appropriate manner. This response is generally learned rather than instinctive . Maturity also encompasses being aware of the correct time and place to behave and knowing when to ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES reach maturity (= be fully grown or developed ) ▪ It takes ten years for these fish to reach maturity. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE average ▪ The shorter the average maturity of their deposits, the greater will ...
Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being mature, ready or ripe 2 When bodily growth has completed and/or reproduction can begin 3 (context countable finance English) Date when payment is due
WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed [syn: adulthood ] state of being mature; full development [syn: matureness ] [ant: immaturity ] the date on which a financial obligation must be repaid ...
Usage examples of maturity.
He starts with a cell as they do, grows to maturity by assimilative organization and endowing transformation of foreign nutriment as they do, his life is a continuous process of waste and repair of tissues as theirs is, and there is, from the scientific point of view, no conceivable reason why he should not be subject to physical death as they are.
As I am taking up residence here in Berlin, I shall look forward to exchanging views with your royal highness on such matters in coming years, as you grow in wisdom and maturity.
For instance, a juvenile hormone for fleas, methoprene, has been isolated and is now being used successfully to keep these insects from ever attaining their fertile maturity.
The muskeeto iz born on the sly, and c*ms to maturity quicker than enny other ov the domestik animiles.
Now that he had attained maturity these unfortunate pundits found themselves hopelessly outclassed, and reduced to mere clerks, bottle-washers and errand-boys.
They grew with each stroke, baby fat giving way to rangy preadolescent bodies that with another stroke bobbed with the extra flesh and hair of maturity.
I was somewhat anxious about the loan, so, before its maturity, I took the note and filed it with the prothonotary at Erie, Pennsylvania, and he entered judgment, which became a lien on her property.
Having served so dutifully as a media whipping boy, the change in the McCants narrative had broadcasters like Mike Patrick greeting his low-scoring games as a sign of maturity, whereas the same stats in previous seasons would have been cause for attack.
She had never once raised her voice, and in this discussion had shown a maturity which Torry had not known that she possessed.
I could persuade her that the past could be unacted, that maturity could go back to the cradle, and that all that was could become as though it had never been, it was useless to assure her that no real change had taken place in her fate.
Both might come in time, but in this present moment there was only raw energy, yet unbridled by maturity of judgment.
Myrtle resigned herself to the guidance of the lovely phantom, which seemed so much fuller of the unextinguished fire of life, and so like herself as she would grow to be when noon should have ripened her into maturity.
Synge left unrevised, was first produced at the Abbey Theatre on January 13, 1910, the last of the six plays of his maturity.
It could produce horrible discords, turn John into an idiot, say, or an invalid, as it tried to do, or perhaps an acromegalic monster, with gigantic hands and head, by stimulating bone-growth after maturity.
The rhythm that the revolutionary movements have established is the beat of a new aetas, a new maturity and metamorphosis of the times.
