Word Meanings - MATURESCENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Approaching maturity.

MATURITY
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,
APPROACHABLENESS
The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility.
APPROACHLESS
Impossible to be approached.
APPROACHMENT
Approach. Holland.
APPROACHABILITY
The quality of being approachable; approachableness.
APPROACHING
The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.
APPROACHER
One who approaches.
APPROACH
1. To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer. Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city 2 Sam. xi. 20. But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Heb. x. 25. 2. To draw near,
APPROACHABLE
Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue.
IMMATURITY
The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness. When the world has outgrown its intellectual immaturity. Caird.
REAPPROACH
To approach again or anew.
INAPPROACHABLE
Not approachable; unapproachable; inaccessible; unequaled. -- In`ap*proach"a*bly, adv.
PREMATURITY
The quality or state of being premature; early, or untimely, ripeness; as, the prematurity of genius.