FLUENCY

n.[L. fluens, from flue, to flow. ] 1. The quality of flowing, applied to speech or language; smoothness; freedom from harshness; as fluency of numbers.
2. Readiness of utterance; facility of words; volubility; as fluency of speech; a speaker of remarkable fluency.
3. Affluence; abundance. Obs.

FLUENCY

Flu "en *cy, n. Etym: [L. fluentia: cf. F. fluence. See Fluent. ]

fluency

flu en cy |ˈflo͞oənsē ˈfluənsi | ▶noun the quality or condition of being fluent, in particular: • the ability to speak or write a foreign language easily and accurately: fluency in Spanish is essential. • the ability to express oneself easily and articulately. • gracefulness and ease of movement or style: the horse was jumping with breathtaking fluency. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin fluentia, from fluere ‘to flow. ’

fluency

flu |ency |ˈfluːənsi | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the quality or condition of being fluent, in particular: • the ability to speak or write a particular foreign language easily and accurately: fluency in Spanish is essential. • the ability to express oneself easily and articulately. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin fluentia, from fluere ‘to flow ’.

fluency

fluency noun 1 a job that calls for verbal fluency: eloquence, articulacy, articulateness, expressiveness, communicativeness, coherence, cogency, intelligibility, comprehensibility, lucidity, vividness, persuasiveness, glibness, volubility. ANTONYMS inarticulacy. 2 fluency in Japanese will be a major asset: articulacy, facility, ability to speak or write … easily and accurately; command of. 3 his walk had a feline kind of fluency to it: fluidity, flow, smoothness, effortlessness, ease, naturalness; grace, gracefulness, elegance; regularity, rhythm, rhythmicity; rare flowingness. ANTONYMS jerkiness.

fluency

flu en cy /flú (ː )ənsi /名詞 U (言語などの )流暢 （りゆうちよう ）さ ; (動作などの )なめらかさ .