fluency

Etymology

From Late Latin fluentia. Cognate with French fluence.

noun

  1. The quality of smoothness of flow.
    She has fluency, nobility, / Elegance and symmetry, / Stability, fluidity, / Like poetry in motion. 1996, Vera Morris, Bill Francoeur, A Little Princess: The Musical: Adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “Sara Crewe”, Denver, Colo.: Pioneer Drama Service, →OCLC, act I, scene i, page 4
  2. (linguistics) 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 it, requiring little deliberate thought to perform without mistakes
    While Gunners boss Arsene Wenger had warned his players against letting the pre-match festivities distract them from the task at hand, they clearly struggled for fluency early on. 10 December 2011, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 – 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport

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