precocity

I cannot learn that he gave in his youth, any evidence of that precocity which sometimes distinguishes uncommon genius.

Anna Comnena, the Byzantine princess turned historian, sees our eleventh-century forebears in just this light, as appears in the mixture of horror with contempt which is her reaction to the mechanical ingenuity of the Crusaders' cross-bow, a Western novelty of her day which—with the characteristic precocity of lethal inventions—preceded by several centuries the invention of clockwork […]

2024 (October 20th) The Simpsons season 36 episode 3 "Desperately Seeking Lisa" Yes, she's truly a special young person, just brimming with precocity. In fact, I was thinking she might be a good fit for the Horace Frick Academy.