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Precociousness is the noun: the quality of being ahead of your age. You use it to name the thing itself rather than describe a person — 'his precociousness surprised his teachers', 'there was a precociousness about the way she argued'. It covers both sides of the adjective. It can mean early ability, which is a compliment, and it can mean an early-adult manner, which can be a gentle complaint. Which one you mean usually comes from the sentence around it. Worth knowing: there is a second noun from the same adjective, 'precocity', and that is the more common one in careful and literary writing — 'musical precocity', 'the precocity of the child'. 'Precociousness' is perfectly correct and slightly plainer and more everyday-sounding; some writers feel it is the clumsier of the two because it is longer. Both are fine, and English does this often, keeping a Latin-shaped noun and an English -ness noun side by side. Neither is common in speech; a parent talking about their own child would just say 'she's very advanced for her age'.
早熟(這個特質本身)。同義的 precocity 在書面語更常見;兩個都對,precociousness 語感比較白話一點。
組成precocious + -ness(把形容詞變成「這個性質」的名詞字尾)。precocious 來自拉丁文 prae(之前)+ coquere(煮熟)。
同家族的字
- precociousthe adjective it is built from
- precocitythe other noun from the same adjective, more common in formal writing
- apricotsame praecox root: the early-ripening fruit
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
precociousnessnoun
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The condition of being precocious
- Saucy precociousness in learning.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。