fluency
noun/ˈfluːənsi/
Etymology From Late Latin fluentia, equivalent to fluent + -cy. Cognate with French fluence.
1
The quality of smoothness of flow.
- She has fluency, nobility, / Elegance and symmetry, / Stability, fluidity, / Like poetry in motion.1996, Vera Morris, Bill Francoeur, A Little Princess: The Musical: Adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “Sara Crewe”, Denver, Colo.: Pioneer Drama Service, →OCLC, act I, scene i, page 4:
2
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences The quality of being fluent in a language; a person's command of a particular language.
3
The quality of consistently applying skill correctly in the manner of one well-practiced at it, requiring little deliberate thought to perform without mistakes
- While Gunners boss Arsene Wenger had warned his players against letting the pre-match festivities distract them from the task at hand, they clearly struggled for fluency early on.2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 – 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2023:
4
The inherent ability to use a language easily and accurately.
- Derived terms
- disfluency, dysfluency, nonfluency, overfluency