prematurity noun. [prɛmǝ'tjʊǝrɪti, pri:-] E17.
[from PRE- 1 + MATURITY, after French prématurité.]
1. Early ripening or flowering in a plant. E17-E18.

2. Undue earliness or haste; hastiness, precipitancy. E18.
■ J. S. Bristowe Their early sickliness and prematurity of death.

3. Early development, esp. of mental or physical faculties; precociousness. L18.

4. Medicine. The fact or condition of giving birth to a premature infant. L19.

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