maturity

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsadulthood

   Broadertime of life

   Narrowerprime

   Partsteenstwentiesthirtiesfortiesfiftiesmajority
2. 2.

   state of being mature; full development

   Synonymsmatureness

   Antonymsimmaturity

   Broaderstate

   Narroweradulthoodripenessyouthpost-maturity
3. 3.

   the date on which an obligation must be repaid

   Synonymsmaturity datedue date

   Broaderdate

Other forms of maturity

plural

maturities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about maturity

What does maturity mean?

maturity means "the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in maturity?

maturity has 4 syllables: ma-tur-i-ty. The stress falls on "tur". In IPA it is /məˈtʃʊɹəti/.

What is another word for maturity?

Close synonyms include adulthood, matureness, maturity date, due date. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of maturity?

The recorded antonyms are immaturity.

Is maturity a common word?

maturity is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.