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Precociousness

noun
1.
Intelligence achieved far ahead of normal developmental schedules.  Synonym: precocity.





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"Precociousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... even in such cases superstitious mothers could easily persuade themselves that the destroyed infants were undoubtedly the offspring of elfins, and therefore unworthy of their fostering care. The only safeguard to wholesale infanticide was the test applied as to the super-human precociousness, or ordinary intelligence, ...
— Welsh Folk-Lore - a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales • Elias Owen


Words linked to "Precociousness" :   intelligence, precocious


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