precocious

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She wished that she could feel toward Arthur as she felt now toward her audiences, which were as absorbing as children with their little clevernesses and precocities.

From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton

Other precocities, with respect to memory and the power to combine, I possessed in common with those children who thus acquire an early reputation.

From Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Oxenford, John

We—Great-aunts Emily and Louisa—had in our innocence been telling a few old fairy stories at bedtime to those three precocities whom our hosts call their children.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-15 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

We are in for a generation made up half of bulbous-headed, bespectacled precocities, and half of barbarians who are "realizing their personality" by the continual use of "shall" and "shan't."

From The Intelligence of Woman by George, Walter Lionel

It had left him aged—not aged as with years, but by an experience which made all the keen-faced men about him seem clever precocities whose mentalities had outstripped the growth of their souls.

From The Parts Men Play by Baxter, Arthur Beverley