Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
precocity .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being precocious; untimely ripeness; premature development, especially of the mental powers; forwardness.
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- noun The condition of being
precocious ;precocity
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun intelligence achieved far ahead of normal developmental schedules
Etymologies
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Examples
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But I could find no substantiation of her "precociousness" among any of her Port Arthur friends.
Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin Friedman, Myra 1973
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The phrase illustrates little African-American girls' precociousness as they attempt to comprehend and overcome the challenges adult African-American women face in their strategies for survival in an oppressive society.
Irene Monroe: 'Womanist': Saying Who We Are Irene Monroe 2011
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You know, it has a lot of attitude and sort of a precociousness to it.
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You know, it has a lot of attitude and sort of a precociousness to it.
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Not just with Laura Linney (brilliant as usual) and Jeff Daniels, but the actors playing their children managed to pull off appearing smart without veering into precociousness.
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EV, which was more important to your precociousness, your innate intelligence or your father?
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There are tales in Freeman's book of teachers squashing precociousness, of being so incredulous about a pupil's talent that they have ripped to shreds the child's work in front of the whole class.
Young, gifted and likely to suffer for it Annalisa Barbieri 2010
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The phrase illustrates little African-American girls' precociousness as they attempt to comprehend and overcome the challenges adult African-American women face in their strategies for survival in an oppressive society.
Irene Monroe: 'Womanist': Saying Who We Are Irene Monroe 2011
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On a precociousness scale of 1 to 10, Willow Smith is a 20 who makes sassy brother Jaden look like a 6 or a 7.
Willow Smith makes TV debut, explains that 'Whip My Hair' is the new way of saying 'I'm me' Jen Chaney 2010
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Not just with Laura Linney (brilliant as usual) and Jeff Daniels, but the actors playing their children managed to pull off appearing smart without veering into precociousness.
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