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PRECOCITY — [Noun] The quality of a child or young person of developing certain abilities or proclivities at an earlier age than is usual. From French précocité, from précoce ("precocious"), from Latin praecoc-, stem of praecox ("early-ripening, premature"), from praecoquere ("to ripen early"), from prae- ("before") + coquere ("to cook, ripen"). Unlike "prodigy," which names the exceptional person, or "maturity," which denotes a stable, natural culmination, precocity names the unsettling condition of premature ripeness. It is the unnerving lucidity in a ten-year-old's eyes, the flawless étude played on a piano still too large for the child's reach, and the brittle texture of a mind that has learned to parse verse before it has learned to climb a tree—a forced harvest, a subtle theft of time that leaves one to wonder what season was stolen to produce it.