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Meanings of fluency in English

Portuguese
eloqüência
Catalan
eloqüència

Powerful and effective language.

eloqüência
Spanish
fluidez
Catalan
fluïdesa

Fluency (also called volubility and eloquency) is the property of a person or of a system that delivers information quickly and with expertise.

fluidez
Portuguese
fluência

Skillfulness in speaking or writing.

fluência

The quality of being facile in speech and writing.

Usage of fluency in English
1
Find your Tandem partner, start chatting, and speak your way to fluency!
The South African
2
It is history, our forgotten history, written with fluency, diligence and wisdom.
The Guardian
3
So, having these digital fluency skills in your toolbox becomes absolutely essential.
Wired
4
The effect would be an increase in fluency and hopefully fewer accidents.
The Brain, A Decoded Enigma
5
The words followed each other with greater fluency and in richer abundance.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 / A Magazine...
6
The fluency and softness of the water are thus described by Lucretius:-
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2
7
It's caught Fred so well -the fluency of his action especially.
The Guardian
8
But her fluency as a performer in her own work is striking.
The Irish Times
9
They are designed to measure attention, memory, fluency, language and spatial performance.
News.com.au
10
Both deliver Schiller's corrugated arguments with the passionate fluency of ideal politicians.
The Guardian
11
Such exercises encourage the classification of facts and stimulate fluency of expression.
The Teaching of History
12
The general characteristics of his Muse are fluency, fancy, melody, and sensibility.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 / A Magazine...
13
Controlling for differences in IQ, the shared deficit in verbal fluency disappeared.
Pubmed
14
Plenty of contemporary accounts admired his adroitness, sureness, strength, fluency and tone.
Radio NZ
15
Celtic generally lacked the fluency they had shown in swatting aside Cluj.
The Guardian
16
It was Blackpool's 17th goal in five games, hinting at their fluency.
The Guardian
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Translations for fluency
Spanish
fluidez
Fluency through the time
Fluency across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common