Meanings
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1
noun
The ability to speak or write a language smoothly and easily.
Years of practice gave her real fluency in Spanish.
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noun
The ability to do something smoothly and skilfully, with little effort.
The team struggled for fluency early in the game.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
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noun
· the ability to speak or...
articulateness
Word family
Forms
fluencies
Derived forms
disfluencydysfluencynonfluencyoverfluency
Etymology
From Late Latin fluentia. Cognate with French fluence.
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