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    Question When personality 'ripens'?

    Hi all,
    Would you please give me a verb to collocate with 'personality' meaning 'to complete'? The example being, '...adulthood is a time when personality (becomes complete)...'


    ['ripen' and 'mature' might be used in this case, but I was looking for a verb that suggests 'completion'.]


    Many thanks!

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    Default Re: When personality 'ripens'?

    ... becomes fully developed.
    ... develops fully.
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    Default Re: When personality 'ripens'?

    Matures works well for me- it suggest fruition but doesn't suggest that the person had ossified.
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