Precocity

Quick meaning: Precocity is a noun meaning The state of being precocious.

Meaning

The state of being precocious.

Example Sentences

Short stature persists into adult life but puberty is usually normal, although sexual precocity has been seen […]

How can we explain the relative precocity in political studies that the Greeks demonstrated in contrast to the backwardness of other early peoples?

By the side of many tall and bouncing young ladies in the establishment, Rebecca Sharp looked like a child. But she had the dismal precocity of poverty.

It was as if his precocity of crookedness (and every vulgar villain is precocious) had for once deceived him, and the man he had sought to entrap as a simpleton had, through his very simplicity, ignominiously baffled him.

Word Forms

• precocities

Synonyms for precocity

Depending on context, synonyms include precociousness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include superprecociality, precompetence, prepotency, precursorship, pretermity, prematurity.

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