Meaning & use
Precocity
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The quality of showing unusually advanced abilities, knowledge, or maturity at an early age.
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The young pianist's precocity astonished the judges at the competition.
Teachers noted her intellectual precocity from her very first year of school.
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Precocity is the noun form of "precocious," which comes from Latin "praecox," literally meaning "ripened before its time," originally used to describe early-blooming plants.
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