emotional maturity

collocation in English

meaningsofemotionalandmaturity

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emotional
adjective
uk
/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən.əl/us
/ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən.əl/
relating to ...
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maturity
noun[U]
uk
/məˈtʃʊə.rə.ti/us
/məˈtʊr.ə.t̬i/
the quality of behaving mentally and emotionally like ...
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(Definition ofemotionalandmaturityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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For a woman bred under such a system, the chances of achieving economic independence, intellectual insight, or even psychological andemotionalmaturitywere almost none.
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The same applies toemotionalmaturityfor where life is less complex there are fewer pressures, and one finds one's place in society much earlier.
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They have had grave effects on the children who have had all the signs of physical maturity withoutemotionalmaturity.
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We need to look again, therefore, at the four requirements for marriage: physical, mental andemotionalmaturity, and financial capacity.
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We say that we have theemotionalmaturitybut that these younger folk do not, so that they should not have the vote.
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Young people who have recently left school may not have reached full intellectual andemotionalmaturity.
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What evidence there is in the matter ofemotionalmaturityseems surely to point in the opposite direction.
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They can become parents regardless of their intelligence, knowledge,emotionalmaturity, financial means or accommodation; yet the lack of any one of those qualities can present enormous difficulties to parenthood.
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He believes the tale is an escapist one that thwarts the child reading it from gainingemotionalmaturity.
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They are "sensitive" or "insensitive" depending upon an individual'semotionalmaturity.
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Success in any field requires forgoing excuses and justifications for poor performance or lack of adequate planning; in short, success requiresemotionalmaturity.
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Eventually, heremotionalmaturitycaught up with her physical form, and the pair were married.
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In traditional flamenco, young people are not considered to have theemotionalmaturityto adequately convey the "duende" (soul) of the genre.
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Emotionalmaturityoccurs, as with humans, over an extended period of time and in stages.
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Applications to the school are reviewed on the basis of character, intellectual ability,emotionalmaturity, curiosity, and breadth of interests.
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Differentiation has also been defined as the measure of one'semotionalmaturity.
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It is not only the constraints of his social situation, but also his ownemotionalmaturity(or immaturity) that holds him back.
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