Precocity

//pɹəˈkɒsɪti//

Synonyms for "precocity" (10 found)

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14 translations across 10 languages.

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Bulgarian

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  • преждевременно развитие noun (state of being precocious)

Catalan

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  • precocitat noun (state of being precocious)

Chinese Mandarin

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  • 早慧 noun (state of being precocious)
  • 早熟 noun (state of being precocious)

German

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  • Frühreife noun (state of being precocious)

Irish

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  • seanaimsearthacht noun (state of being precocious)
  • seanchríonnacht noun (state of being precocious)
  • seanórthacht noun (state of being precocious)

Italian

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  • precocia noun (state of being precocious)
  • precocità noun (state of being precocious)

Japanese

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  • 早熟 noun (state of being precocious)

Korean

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  • 조숙 noun (state of being precocious)

Spanish

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  • precocidad noun (state of being precocious)

Swedish

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  • brådmogenhet noun (state of being precocious)

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1817 William Wirt, Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, New York: M'elrath, Bangs & Co., 1834, Section I, pp. 23-4, https://books.google.ca/books?id=5vE5AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false I cannot learn that he gave in his youth, any evidence of that precocity which sometimes distinguishes uncommon genius.

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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.

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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.

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1946, Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History, Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by D.C. Somervell, Oxford University Press, Chapter XII, p. 242, https://books.google.ca/books?id=IbJ-31LPvyoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Anna Comnena, the Byzantine princess turned historian, sees our eleventh-century forebears in just this light, as appears in the mixture of horror with contempt which is her reaction to the mechanical ingenuity of the Crusaders' cross-bow, a Western novelty of her day which—with the characteristic precocity of lethal inventions—preceded by several centuries the invention of clockwork […]

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