Definition of "precocity"
precocity
noun
countable and uncountable, plural precocities
The state of being precocious.
Quotations
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 […]
1946, Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History, Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by D.C. Somervell, Oxford University Press, Chapter XII, p. 242
How can we explain the relative precocity in political studies that the Greeks demonstrated in contrast to the backwardness of other early peoples?
1964, William Anderson, Man's Quest for Knowledge: The Study and Teaching of Politics in Ancient Times, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Epilogue, p. 329