Meaning & use
Precociousness
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The quality of showing unusually early development of abilities or maturity, especially in a child.
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Her musical precociousness was evident by the time she was five, when she began composing simple tunes.
Teachers were struck by the boy's precociousness in mathematics.
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From Latin 'praecox,' meaning 'ripening early,' the same root that gives us 'precocious.'
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precocityadvanced maturity
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