precocious

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(especially of children) showing mental development or achievement much earlier than usual:

A precocious child, she went to university at the age of 15.

She recorded her first album at the precocious age of twelve.

A precocious child behaves as if they are much older than they are:

a precocious little brat

happening too early, or much earlier than usual:

precocious puberty She had a condition called precocious puberty, in which children mature sexually at a very early age.

As a society, we may have encouraged precocious sexuality in our children.

Italian literature came to precocious maturity the next century with the work of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio.

showing unusually early mental development or achievement:

Lucy was a verbally precocious child.