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fluency
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Word definitions for fluency in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality of smoothness of flow 2 (context linguistics English) The quality of being fluent in a language; A person's command of a particular language. 3 The quality of consistently applying skill correctly in the manner of one well-practiced at ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. powerful and effective language [syn: eloquence ] skillfulness in speaking or writing the quality of being facile in speech and writing [syn: volubility , articulateness ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fluency (also called volubility and eloquency ) is the property of a person or of a system that delivers information quickly and with expertise .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fluency \Flu"en*cy\, n. [L. fluentia: cf. F. fluence. See Fluent .] The quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility. The art of expressing with fluency and perspicuity. --Macaulay.
Usage examples of fluency.
He, the troubled, nervous, modern man, wrote with fluency fugues and double fugues, chaconnes and passacaglie, concerti grossi and variations.
Not prominent as a debater, he yet spoke with directness and fluency, and was always listened to by the House.
Adolph poured forth, with great fluency, an extemporary speech, which he had been preparing, with great care, for a fortnight before.
Amberdrake got an odd, unsettling feeling in the pit of his stomachand Filix and Skan cursed together with heartfelt fluency.
A dark shadow in the fog glowed suddenlyAmberdrake got an odd, unsettling feeling in the pit of his stomachand Filix and Skan cursed together with heartfelt fluency.
He paced the stage easily, one hand shoved in his pants pocket, his fluency betraying slightly the geekiness he played to constantly.
The effect of the language program on the enlisted men was evidently not spectacular for Stilwell after a time found it necessary to persuade one of the younger officers, Lieutenant Timberman, who had achieved some fluency, to teach the noncoms enough Chinese to ask their way.
I had engaged an interpreter, but was able to dismiss him as my guest spoke English with more ease and fluency than he, being an intelligent and well-to-do member of the Vaisya caste.
Speak other languages with the fluency of the Wais, run a ship as efficiently as a Hivistahm, even fight like the Massood.
Determined that the burgeoning population of young Mexican-Americans will not go the way of other minority groups and eventually lose both their native language and their ethnic identity, they press ever forward with an agenda that deprives these immigrants of the fluency and expertise in English that the past assimilationist and immersionist models insisted upon.
Though he could read French well enough, Jefferson was never to speak the language with the fluency Adams attained.
He, the troubled, nervous, modern man, wrote with fluency fugues and double fugues, chaconnes and passacaglie, concerti grossi and variations.
He learned the tensile strength of the local teak or cedar with near-native fluency, jackfruit disaster notwithstanding.
Everard and Whitcomb spent an hour unconscious under the hypnotic educators, to emerge with fluency in Latin and in several Saxon and Jutish dialects, and with a fair knowledge of the mores.
Korean man who spoke the high Khalkha Mongol of the old empire days with the fluency of a herdsman.