0 (of fruit or crops) the quality of being ready to be collected or eaten: --
1 the quality of being fully developed: --
His intellectual powers had come very gradually to ripeness.
2 the condition of having a very strong, usually unpleasant, smell: --
3 (of someone's language) the fact of being very rude: --
There are well-documented instances of the ripeness of his language to journalists.
We can complete it step by step however long the road is and it can't be completed however short the road is if you don't even mark your footprint.
Vi kan slutföra det steg för steg hur lång vägen än är och den kan inte slutföras hur kort vägen än är om du inte ens markerar ditt fotavtryck.