precociousness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PRECO'CIOUSNESS PRECOC'ITY, noun Rapid growth and ripeness before the usual time; prematureness. I cannot learn that he gave, in his youth, any evidence of that precocity which sometimes distinguishes uncommon genius.
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