Fluency

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fluency
       n 1: powerful and effective language [syn: {eloquence}]
       2: skillfulness in speaking or writing
       3: the quality of being facile in speech and writing [syn: {volubility},
           {articulateness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  180 Moby Thesaurus words for "fluency":
     Atticism, abundance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, amplitude,
     appropriateness, articulateness, 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