# Maturity

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**Maturity** or **immaturity** may refer to:

- [Adulthood](/source/Adulthood) or [age of majority](/source/Age_of_majority)
- [Maturity model](/source/Maturity_model) - [Capability Maturity Model](/source/Capability_Maturity_Model), in software engineering, a model representing the degree of formality and optimization of processes in an organization
- [Developmental age](/source/Developmental_age), the age of an embryo as measured from the point of fertilization
- [Mature technology](/source/Mature_technology), a technology has been in use and development for long enough that most of its initial problems have been overcome
- [Maturity (finance)](/source/Maturity_(finance)), indicating the final date for payment of principal and interest
- [Maturity (geology)](/source/Maturity_(geology)), rock, source rock, and hydrocarbon generation
- [Maturity (psychological)](/source/Maturity_(psychological)), the attainment of one's final level of psychological functioning and the integration of their personality into an organized whole
- [Maturity (sedimentology)](/source/Maturity_(sedimentology)), the proximity of a sedimentary deposit from its source
- [Sexual maturity](/source/Sexual_maturity), the stage when an organism can reproduce, though this is distinct from adulthood

## See also

- [Evolution](/source/Evolution)
- [Maturation (disambiguation)](/source/Maturation_(disambiguation))
- [Mature (disambiguation)](/source/Mature_(disambiguation))

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