MATURITY

Pronunciation (US):

• MATURITY (noun)
  The noun MATURITY has 3 senses:

1. the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed
2. state of being mature; full development
3. the date on which a financial obligation must be repaid

  Familiarity information: MATURITY used as a noun is uncommon.

• MATURITY (noun)

Meaning:

The period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

adulthood; maturity

Hypernyms ("maturity" is a kind of...):

time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)

Meronyms (parts of "maturity"):

middle age (the time of life between youth and old age (e.g., between 40 and 60 years of age))

voting age (the age at which a person is old enough to vote in public elections)

drinking age (the age at which is legal for a person to buy alcoholic beverages)

legal age; majority (the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs)

fifties; mid-fifties (the time of life between 50 and 60)

forties; mid-forties (the time of life between 40 and 50)

mid-thirties; thirties; thirty-something (the time of life between 30 and 40)

mid-twenties; twenties (the time of life between 20 and 30)

teens (the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "maturity"):

prime; prime of life (the time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest)

Meaning:

State of being mature; full development

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

matureness; maturity

Hypernyms ("maturity" is a kind of...):

state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)

Attribute:

mature (having reached full natural growth or development)

immature (not yet mature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "maturity"):

adulthood (the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity)

ripeness (the state of being ripe)

youth (early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced)

post-maturity; post-menopause (the state in which women have stopped ovulating)

Antonym:

immaturity (not having reached maturity)

Meaning:

The date on which a financial obligation must be repaid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

due date; maturity date; maturity

Hypernyms ("maturity" is a kind of...):

date; day of the month (the specified day of the month)