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means The process of developing fully over time, growing from an early or rough stage into a finished, ripe, or ready one.

from From Latin maturare, 'to ripen or hasten,' from maturus, 'ripe, timely.' The Latin root carries a built-in paradox worth savoring — maturus described fruit ready at the right season, but the verb maturare also meant 'to speed up, to do early.' So buried in the word's ancestry is the tension between rushing and ripening: you can't actually hurry maturity, but the Romans named the act of waiting for it with a word that also meant hurry. English borrowed the noun in the 1400s–1500s mostly for physical ripening, later stretching it to minds, plans, and emotional growth.