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Maturity

/məˈtjʊəɹəti/

The state of being mature, ready or ripe.

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📖 Definitions of "Maturity"

noun

1
The state of being mature, ready or ripe.
"Some foods and drinks, like wine, only reach their full taste at maturity, which literally comes at a price"
2
When bodily growth has completed and/or reproduction can begin.
3
The state of a debt obligation at the end of the term of maturation thereof, once all interest and any applicable fees have accrued to the principal.
4
Date when payment is due.
"The note was cashed at maturity."

🔄 Synonyms of "Maturity"

4 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
due datenoun	The date of payment in financial arrangements.
adulthoodnoun	The time period of a person's majority, following puberty and lasting until death.
maturity datenoun	(finance) The date on which a principal amount of a note, draft, acceptance bond, or other debt instrument becomes due or payable.
maturenessnoun	The property of being mature.

↔️ Antonyms of "Maturity"

Words with the opposite meaning.

Word	Definition
immaturitynoun	Youth; the condition of being immature or not fully grown
immaturenessnoun	The quality or state of being immature; immaturity.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Maturity"

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
maturenessnoun	The property of being mature.
adulthoodnoun	The time period of a person's majority, following puberty and lasting until death.
due datenoun	The date of payment in financial arrangements.
maturity datenoun	(finance) The date on which a principal amount of a note, draft, acceptance bond, or other debt instrument becomes due or payable.
maturationnoun	The process of becoming mature.
adultnoun	A person who has reached the legal age of majority.
matureverb	Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
agingnoun	The process of becoming older or more mature.
ripeningnoun	The process of becoming ripe.
ripenessnoun	The characteristic of being ripe.
agenoun	(countable) The amount of time that some being has been alive, or that some thing has been in existence, as measured from its birth or origin until the present or until some other given reference point. (Often measured in number of years; alternatively in months, days, hours, etc.; see also the usage notes)
fruitionnoun	The fulfillment of something worked for.
sophisticationnoun	Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
stabilisationnoun	Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of stabilization. [(uncountable) The process of stabilizing.]
termnoun	That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
stabilizationnoun	(uncountable) The process of stabilizing.
completionnoun	The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.
majoritynoun	More than half (50%) of some group.
periodnoun	(now chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
expired	that is no longer valid