[
UK
/pɹɪkˈəʊʃəsnəs/
]
NOUN
- intelligence achieved far ahead of normal developmental schedules
How To Use precociousness In A Sentence
- A pastiche of autobiography and post-modern plot twists, it was haunted by an off-putting tone of smug precociousness.
- The phrase illustrates little African-American girls' precociousness as they attempt to comprehend and overcome the challenges adult African-American women face in their strategies for survival in an oppressive society. Irene Monroe: 'Womanist': Saying Who We Are
- Yet the sawmill was a conservatory of sorts for Maxine, Jim Ed and Bonnie, who early on revealed their musical precociousness by identifying exactly when a spinning saw blade had been properly tempered. "Nashville Chrome," a novel by Rick Bass, about the Browns