maturing

Adjective

Meaning

of Mature

Approaching maturity; as, maturing fruits; maturing notes of hand.

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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer. Margaret Mead

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me. Andrew Greeley

In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get too thin. Thorsten Heins

The future is of our own making - and (for me) the most striking characteristic of the century is just that development, that maturing of our consciousness which should open our eyes to that truth. Joseph Conrad

Maybe it's a mark of a maturing culture, do you think, that secrets aren't kept, that truth is told, that things are talked out? Arthur C. Clarke

With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities. Margaret Mead

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