precocity

noun

Etymology: From French précocité.

1. The state of being precocious.

   “1817 William Wirt, Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, New York: M'elrath, Bangs & Co., 1834, Section I, pp. 23-4, https://books.google.ca/books?id=5vE5AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false I cannot learn that he gave in his youth, any evidence of that precocity which sometimes distinguishes uncommon genius.”

   “By the side of many tall and bouncing young ladies in the establishment, Rebecca Sharp looked like a child. But she had the dismal precocity of poverty.”