precociousness

precocious | American Dictionary

precocious
adjective
us/prɪˈkoʊ·ʃəs/
showing unusually early mental development or achievement:
Lucy was a verbally precocious child.

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precocious
They warn that youth employment is par t of a syndrome of "precocious development," precipitating a hastened transition to adulthood.
The opera was received indulgendy as the astonishing product of a precocious talent, but, after the novelty had worn off, its demise was swift.
The above data suggest that common mechanisms underpin attachment organization in caregiver and infant, and the precocious emergence of mentalizing in the child.
However, we lack any overall vocabulary estimate for the child, one of the most precocious of 25 subjects.
In both cases, after their first precocious displays of talent, their families and communities sought to put them to work in local musical life.
Compared to older children who had equally large lexicons, the precocious children demonstrated comparable grammatical composition of the lexicon.
We predicted that two-year-olds who are reported by parents to be lexically precocious will demonstrate more consistent fast mapping than their typical age-mates.
Edwards (1986) has shown that one solution that prevents precocious germination during prechilling is to partially redry seeds during pretreatment.
Precocious loss of cortical granules during mouse oocytes meiotic maturation and correlation with an egg-induced modification of the zona pellucida.
Meiosis-activating sterol protects oocytes from precocious chromosome segregation.
Precocious readers, in turn, are distinguished from their nonreading peers by their superior phoneme and onset - rime awareness.
The threshold for microvascular disease is clinically relevant, as the precocious development of microangiopathy is the most remarkable feature of diabetes.
A possible explanation is that the molgulid ascidians may have undergone precocious changes in egg organisation as a preadaptation to direct development.
Though in this study ' earlier ' and ' later ' were crudely defined, the patterns in the data do suggest that lexically precocious children may gain early entrance into grammar.
One purpose of the present investigation, therefore, was to examine phonological patterns of several groups of children representing a range from average to precocious lexical development.
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