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Meanings of volubility in English

The quality of being facile in speech and writing.

Synonyms
Examples for "fluency"
Examples for "fluency"
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Find your Tandem partner, start chatting, and speak your way to fluency!
The South African
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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...
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Slow and precise when appropriate or a practiced articulateness when speaking rapidly.
Terminal Compromise
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I marvel at their talents, their articulateness, their devotion to justice, and their grace.
True compass: a memoir
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She had not awakened to articulateness.
A Tramp's Sketches
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There was a murmur, not rising to articulateness, which seemed to be surprise at the sight of the portrait so unexpectedly disclosed.
The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2
5
The night wind rustled in the corn with a crisp articulateness he had never noticed in daytime, and he felt like an eavesdropper.
Hooking Watermelons / 1898
Usage of volubility in English
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He held his tongue now; it was I who spoke with volubility.
International Short Stories: French
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She continued to talk on with the volubility peculiar to her kind.
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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He replied with volubility, and helped them down on to the ice.
The Angel and the Author, and Others
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Her musical volubility flowed to entrance and divert him, as it did.
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 5
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Its spirit, invention, volubility of tongue, and forwardness in action, are unbounded.
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
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She entered without curtseying, pale as a spectre, and said with volubility:
Cinq Mars — Volume 4
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The sergeant, cursing them with horrid volubility, followed closely upon my heels.
Bardelys the Magnificent / Being an account of the strange wooin...
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But as they neared the gate Dot's volubility quite suddenly died down.
The Knave of Diamonds
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She recovered her volubility, followed his partial retreat, and dropped her voice,-
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
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Charlie, piqued at her inattentiveness, essayed a volubility foreign to his words.
Erik Dorn
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Mention the names with all the precision, volubility and confidence in the world.
The Golden Censer / Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the f...
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In response to some remark from Miss Warren she continued, in shrill volubility:
A Day of Fate
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They argued with volubility: they argued standing in the open doorway.
The Angel and the Author, and Others
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An American voice began at once to explain the joke with considerable volubility.
The Odds / And Other Stories
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He had counted on her volubility; it did not disappoint him.
A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day
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She had spoken with volubility, and the priest listened to her in silence.
The Grip of Desire: The Story of a Parish-Priest
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Volubility through the time
Volubility across language varieties
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