fluency

B2 Topic:Communication
US /ˈfluːənsi/
noun Freq #86505

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    The ability to speak or write a language smoothly and easily.

    Years of practice gave her real fluency in Spanish.

  2. 2
    noun

    The ability to do something smoothly and skilfully, with little effort.

    The team struggled for fluency early in the game.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 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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