articulateness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English articulate Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English articulateness From articulate + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being articulate.
The elderly man, who had necessarily unmouthed the dagger to achieve this articulateness, smiled disarmingly.
2010, Michael Innes, Honeybath's Haven, page 28:“Communicative injustice” refers to the fact that second-language learning generally does not lead to a command of a language that is equivalent to that possessed by native speakers: the latter usually have higher degrees of fluency, expressiveness, articulateness and eloquence in almost all communicative situations when it is used.
2022, Sabine Fiedler, Cyril Robert Brosch, “What is a lingua franca?” (chapter 2), in Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 11:
Translations (3)
es fluidez (quality of being articulate) · es elocuencia (quality of being articulate) · nb taleførhet (quality of being articulate)