Precocity

Definition: Precocity

Precocity

Noun

1. Intelligence achieved far ahead of normal developmental schedules.

Date "precocity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Synonym: Precocity

Synonym: precociousness (n). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: earliness (food & agriculture).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Earliness	Prematurity, precocity, precipitation, anticipation; a stitch in time.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	The Mind Object: Precocity and Pathology of Self-Sufficiency (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Precocity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Precocity" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	12	101,599

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "precocity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zhvillim i parakohshëm (precociousness), hershmëri (precociousness). (various references)

Arabic		‏نضج (mature, maturity, ripeness), ‏نشوء مبكر, ‏تهريف, ‏تطور قبل الأوان, ‏إبتسار جنسي. (various references)

Bulgarian		ранозрелост, преждевременно развитие. (various references)

Czech		předèasná zralost. (various references)

Danish		tidlig modning (earliness, early maturity). (various references)

Dutch		vroegtijdige rijpheid (earliness, early maturity), vroegrijpheid (earliness, early maturity). (various references)

Finnish		aikaisuus (earliness). (various references)

French		précocité (precociousness). (various references)

German		Frühreife (forwardness, precociousness, prematureness). (various references)

Greek		πρόωρη ανάπτυξη (precociousness), πρωϊμότητα (earliness, early maturity), αυθάδεια (audacity, effrontery, forwardness, impertinence, insolence, pertness, sauce, sauciness). (various references)

Hebrew		�"תפתחות שלפ� י �"זמן. (various references)

Hungarian		koraérettség (precociousness, prematurity), koraérés (precociousness). (various references)

Italian		maturit� precoce (earliness, early maturity). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		夙成 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゅくせい (age of decline, enforcement, purge, regulation). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecocitypray

Portuguese		precocidade (forwardness). (various references)

Romanian		precocitate (forwardness, precociousness). (various references)

Russian		скороспелость. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prevremenost (prematurity), rana zrelost. (various references)

Spanish		precocidad (forwardness, precociousness, prematureness, prematurity). (various references)

Swedish		tidighet (forwardness), tidig mognad (earliness, early maturity), brådmögenhet. (various references)

Turkish		erken gelişmişlik (precociousness), erken gelişme (forwardness, precociousness). (various references)

Ukrainian		скороспілість (earliness), ранній розвиток (forwardness, prematureness, prematurity). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính sớm (precociousness, prematureness, prematurity), sự sớm ra hoa (precociousness), sự sớm phát triển (precociousness), sự sớm biết (precociousness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Precocity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Peccati, percocity, precosity, pricocity, recodify. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-o-p-r-t-y"
	-1 letter: ecotypic.
	-2 letters: cerotic, cryptic, ectopic, orectic, pyretic.
	-3 letters: cicero, copier, copter, cotype, cretic, crypto, erotic, pectic, poetic, poetry, pricey, protei, pyrite, recopy, tropic, typier.
	-4 letters: cerci, ceric, citer, coper, coyer, crept, crepy, cripe, croci, crypt, optic, picot, piety, price, pricy, pyric, recti, recto, repot, ropey, tepoy, toper, topic, toric, toyer, trice, tripe, trope, typic.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-o-p-r-t-y"
	+1 letter: premycotic.
	+2 letters: cryptogenic, polycentric, pyrotechnic, reciprocity.
	+3 letters: chalcopyrite, overcapacity, phenocrystic, psychometric, pyroelectric, pyrotechnics.
	+4 letters: chalcopyrites, psychometrics, psychrometric, pyrotechnical.
	+5 letters: cryoprotective, microsporocyte, psychoneurotic.
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