Meaning of MATURITY
| Pronunciation: | | much'ûrutee
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- [n] state of being mature; full development
- [n] the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed
- [n] the date on which a financial obligation must be repaid
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MATURITY is a 8 letter word that starts with M. |
| | Synonyms: | | adulthood, due date, matureness, maturity date |
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| | Antonyms: | | immatureness, immaturity | | |
| | See Also: | | adulthood, date, day of the month, drinking age, fifties, forties, legal age, majority, middle age, mid-fifties, mid-forties, mid-thirties, mid-twenties, prime, prime of life, ripeness, state, teens, thirties, thirty-something, time of life, twenties, voting age, youth | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ma*tu"ri*ty\, n. [L. maturitas: cf. F. maturit['e].]
1. The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full
development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass;
maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan.
2. Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due;
termination of the period a note, etc., has to run.
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| | Related Terms: | | ability, accounts payable, accounts receivable, adulthood, adultness, age of consent, amount due, applicability, bad debts, bill, bills, borrowing, capability, charges, chits, close, competence, competency, completing, completion, conclusion, condition, consummation, culmination, debt, driving age, due, dues, end, ending, financial commitment, finish, finishing, fitness, fittedness, floating debt, flower of age, full age, full bloom, full development, full growth, fullgrownness, fullness, funded debt, grown-upness, indebtedness, indebtment, legal age, legalis homo, liability, majority, manhood, manlihood, mastery, maturation, mature age, mellowness, national debt, obligation, operability, outstanding debt, perfection, pledge, preparedness, prime, prime of life, proficiency, public debt, qualification, readiness, ripe age, ripeness, riper years, rounding off, rounding out, score, seasoning, suitability, suitableness, suitedness, tempering, termination, terminus, toga virilis, topping off, trim, uncollectibles, unfulfilled pledge, virility, windup, womanhood, womanlihood, years of discretion |
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