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Noun: fluency  floo-un(t)-see
  1. Ability to express oneself readily and clearly in speech
    "Her fluency in three languages impressed the interviewers";
    - volubility, articulateness
     
  2. Skilful and graceful expression, especially in speech
    "His fluency in the debate won over many sceptics";
    - eloquence
     
  3. Ease and grace of movement or flow
    "The fluency of the dance performance";
    - smoothness

Derived forms: fluencies

Type of: communicativeness, skilfulness [Brit, Cdn], skillfulness [N. Amer]

Antonym: disfluency

Encyclopedia: Fluency