precocities

But like those writers, Mr. Englander seemed to possess real storytelling bravado and a potential for brilliance that overshadowed his juvenile precocities.

Life With and Without Tradition Sam Sacks 2012

And in other emergencies she divined the mysteries of the flesh, as other precocities divine the mysteries of painting and music, and so become child wonders.

Balcony Stories Grace E. King

For the rare instances of hereditary transmission of distinguished mental power are well worth attention, and the maturity of thought and the subtile trains of reflection in this youth now afford that large promise of genius which may not be confounded with those specious precocities of talent the world never lacks.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

It is precisely the same with the so-called musical precocities.

Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression James Francis Cooke 1917

As for the little French girls, he was at any time uninterested in girls; and these spindle-shanked precocities walked on two-inch heels, and tried to fascinate him with the graces of mature coquettes.

The Admirable Tinker Child of the World Edgar Jepson 1900

Such things, which in another might have been mere childish precocities, were in him the indications of an enthusiasm for antiquity, which was destined to be the ruling passion of his whole life.

The Sea-Kings of Crete James Baikie 1898

Some of the best things in the dialogue -- not always very humorous -- were given to little _Alice Brook_ (aged 14), one of those precocities for which

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 24, 1920 Various 1898

Other precocities, with respect to memory and the power to combine, I possessed in common with those children who thus acquire an early reputation.

Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790