英语词汇“precocity”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

The noun precocity describes a smartness or skill that's achieved much earlier than usual. You'll be proud of your puppy's precocity if he is perfectly trained by the age of four months.

If you're precocious, you've got the quality of precocity. You could also call it precociousness, but either way it means you're way ahead of the curve in ability or intelligence. You might comment on the precocity of your niece who learned to read when she was three, or the neighbor who started college at the age of fifteen. The root word is Latin, praecox, or "maturing early," which comes from pre, "before," and coquere, "to ripen or cook."

WORD FAMILY

precocity: precocious, precocities+/precocious: precociously, precociousness

USAGE EXAMPLES

She captures the child’s odd precocity and intermittent love along with the old man’s mingled wisdom and self-pity.

Washington Post(Oct 17, 2016)

The show even makes decent use of Ryder, whose once uncanny precocity has lately turned into an unsettling fragility.

Slate(Jul 12, 2016)

There is equal humility and precocity to these statements, a duality that kept popping up in my conversation with Baker.

The New Yorker(Apr 29, 2016)

n intelligence achieved far ahead of normal developmental schedules

Syn|Hyper

precociousness

intelligence

the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience

单词	precocity
释义	precocity (once / 2156 pages) n The noun precocity describes a smartness or skill that's achieved much earlier than usual. You'll be proud of your puppy's precocity if he is perfectly trained by the age of four months. If you're precocious, you've got the quality of precocity. You could also call it precociousness, but either way it means you're way ahead of the curve in ability or intelligence. You might comment on the precocity of your niece who learned to read when she was three, or the neighbor who started college at the age of fifteen. The root word is Latin, praecox, or "maturing early," which comes from pre, "before," and coquere, "to ripen or cook." WORD FAMILY precocity: precocious, precocities+/precocious: precociously, precociousness USAGE EXAMPLES She captures the child’s odd precocity and intermittent love along with the old man’s mingled wisdom and self-pity. Washington Post(Oct 17, 2016) The show even makes decent use of Ryder, whose once uncanny precocity has lately turned into an unsettling fragility. Slate(Jul 12, 2016) There is equal humility and precocity to these statements, a duality that kept popping up in my conversation with Baker. The New Yorker(Apr 29, 2016) n intelligence achieved far ahead of normal developmental schedules Syn\|Hyper precociousness intelligence the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience
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