child prodigy:

(also ‘wonder child’; plural: ‘child prodigies‘; pronunciation: the letters ‘gy’ in “prodigy” rhyme with the letter of alphabet “g”)

Akrit Jaswal, child prodigy surgeon, India

 

a child who shows extraordinary talents in arts or other activities at a very early age, i.e. a child of ten years of age does the (scientific) mathematics of graduate level or painting pictures that are of the standards of any great painter, or composing music that is better than that of any of the great musicians of the time,

Sha, child prodigy violinist, China

Examples of some popular ‘child prodigies’:

Mozart, German music composer starting career from the age of five;

Srinivasa Ramanujam, Indian mathematician starting career at the age of ten;

Kim Ung-yong, Korean with the ‘highest IQ’ and proficiency in languages and poetry;

Karl Benz, German engineer starting career at the age of nine;

Avicenna (Ibn Sina), Persian intellectual memorising the Quran at the age of 7 (or 10) and showing intellectual talents in science, poetry, etc;

H.P. Lovecraft, American writer, reciting poems at the age of three and publishing long poems at the age of six, authored horror and fantasy stories.

Compare: prodigy

For an interesting article on child prodigies and the future problems, please click here, and for another blog post (with a video) of a talented child, please click here.

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