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• n  intelligence achieved far ahead of normal developmental schedules

• Hasna relates anecdotes about Thamer's precociousness in school, his skill at drawing, his talent for fixing household electronics.
• Here, for instance, is the epigrammatic opening sentence of historian Peter Gay's Mozart: "The life of Mozart is the triumph of genius over precociousness.
• Hasna relates anecdotes about Thamer's precociousness in school, his skill at drawing, his talent for fixing household electronics.

• precocity

News & Articles

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• The 13-Page Preschool Application
  My working-class mother never schmoozed admissions staffs or wrote essays about my precociousness in turning books the right way up. I never thought I would. But if my daughter is going to go to preschool in Manhattan, I'll have to learn.
  Feb. 11, 2014 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Garcia Marquez in AZ Central.com
  Shakira's unrelenting precociousness, her granite-like devotion and a native city prone to artistic invention could be the only grounds for such a rare destiny,Garcia Marquez wrote in a glowing 1999 profile of Shakira.
• Kent Desormeaux in Hartford Courant
  I've had some horses equally fast,Desormeaux said. "Pegasus was fast. Afternoon Delights was probably the fastest I ever rode, but he didn't have the stamina of this guy. The difference between Big Brown and Pegasus was the precociousness....