premature
adjective
occurring, coming, or done too soon.
prematureness
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a word derived from
premature.
Example Sentences
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The shocking prematureness of this shallow condonation is now too glaringly visible for any one to deny it.
From On Compromise by John Morley
I perceived from the first day all the importance of that event, but also its prematureness.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various
She bit her lip in discomfiture; there was a prematureness about this frontier lance that made him exceedingly difficult to parry, skilled as she was in the subtle art of fence.
From The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer
What I meant was less to call in question Chatterton's genius, than to object to the common mode of estimating its magnitude by its prematureness.
From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Alfred Rayney Waller
As for herself, she merely complained of a prematureness and crudity best unanalyzed.
From The Egoist by George Meredith
