'Fluency' definitions:
Definition of 'fluency'
(from WordNet)
noun
Powerful and effective language; "his eloquence attracted a large congregation"; "fluency in spoken and written English is essential"; "his oily smoothness concealed his guilt from the police" [syn: eloquence, fluency, smoothness]
noun
Skillfulness in speaking or writing [ant: disfluency]
noun
The quality of being facile in speech and writing [syn: fluency, volubility, articulateness]
Definition of 'Fluency'
From: GCIDE
- Fluency \Flu"en*cy\, n. [L. fluentia: cf. F. fluence. See Fluent.] The quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility. [1913 Webster]
- The art of expressing with fluency and perspicuity. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fluency'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abundance,
- affluence,
- afflux,
- affluxion,
- amplitude,
- appropriateness,
- articulateness,
- Atticism,
- big mouth,
- candor,
- chasteness,
- chastity,
- chylifaction,
- chylification,
- clarity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- clearness,
- cloud of words,
- comeliness,
- command,
- communicativeness,
- concourse,
- confluence,
- conflux,
- control,
- conversableness,
- copiousness,
- correctness,
- course,
- crosscurrent,
- current,
- defluxion,
- diffuseness,
- diffusion,
- diffusiveness,
- dignity,
- directness,
- discrimination,
- distinction,
- downflow,
- downpour,
- drift,
- driftage,
- ease,
- effortlessness,
- effusion,
- effusiveness,
- elegance,
- elegancy,
- eloquence,
- extravagance,
- exuberance,
- facility,
- fecundity,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- fertility,
- finish,
- fittingness,
- flow,
- flow of words,
- flowing,
- flowing periods,
- flowing tongue,
- fluent tongue,
- fluidity,
- fluidness,
- flux,
- flux de bouche,
- flux de paroles,
- flux of words,
- fluxility,
- fluxion,
- formlessness,
- frankness,
- garrulity,
- garrulousness,
- gassiness,
- gift of gab,
- glibness,
- good taste,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- gregariousness,
- gush,
- gushiness,
- gushing,
- inflow,
- juiciness,
- lactation,
- lactescence,
- limpidity,
- liquefaction,
- liquidness,
- logorrhea,
- long-windedness,
- loose tongue,
- loquaciousness,
- loquacity,
- lucidity,
- macrology,
- milkiness,
- mill run,
- millrace,
- moisture,
- naturalness,
- neatness,
- onrush,
- onward course,
- openness,
- outflow,
- outpour,
- overflow,
- palilogy,
- pellucidity,
- perspicuity,
- plainness,
- pleonasm,
- poetry,
- polish,
- prodigality,
- productivity,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- prolificacy,
- prolificity,
- prolixity,
- propriety,
- purity,
- race,
- rampancy,
- rankness,
- redundancy,
- refinement,
- reiteration,
- reiterativeness,
- repetition for effect,
- repetitiveness,
- restraint,
- rheuminess,
- run,
- rush,
- sappiness,
- seemliness,
- serosity,
- set,
- simplicity,
- slickness,
- slush,
- smoothness,
- sociability,
- spate,
- spate of words,
- straightforwardness,
- stream,
- succulence,
- superabundance,
- superfluity,
- superflux,
- suppuration,
- surge,
- talkativeness,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- tautology,
- teemingness,
- terseness,
- tide,
- tirade,
- trend,
- unaffectedness,
- undercurrent,
- undertow,
- verbosity,
- volubility,
- water flow,
- wateriness,
- windiness