Dictionary

fluency en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈfluːənsi/

Etymology

From Late Latin fluentia, equivalent to fluent + -cy. Cognate with French fluence.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being fluent in a language; a person's command of a particular language.
3. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) The inherent ability to use a language easily and accurately.

Forms

Deriveds

disfluency · dysfluency · overfluency · nonfluency

Translations (66)

fi nestemäisyys (quality of smoothness of flow) · fi virtaavuus (quality of smoothness of flow) · ru свобо́дное владе́ние (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · bg течливост (quality of smoothness of flow) · vi sự thành thạo (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · tr akıcılık (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · pl biegłość (quality of consistently applying skill correctly) · pt fluência (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · ro fluență (quality of smoothness of flow) · de Fluss (quality of smoothness of flow) · ga líofacht (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · nl vlotheid (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · de Geläufigkeit (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · he רהיטות (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · es fluidez (quality of smoothness of flow) · rsk чечносц (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · pt fluidez (quality of smoothness of flow) · ru бе́глость (quality of smoothness of flow) · hu folyékonyság (quality of smoothness of flow) · de Flüssigkeit (quality of smoothness of flow) · es soltura (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · tr akıcılık (quality of smoothness of flow) · hy արագախոսություն (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · cy rhuglder (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · grc εὐρημοσύνη (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · hi रवानी (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · ko 유려 (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · es desenvoltura (quality of consistently applying skill correctly) · hy սահունություն (quality of smoothness of flow) · hu folyékony nyelvtudás (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · ko 유창 (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · la lēvitās (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · fi sujuvuus (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · ga líofacht (quality of smoothness of flow) · ga éascaíocht (quality of smoothness of flow) · es fluidez (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · es desparpajo (quality of consistently applying skill correctly) · hu jártasság (quality of consistently applying skill correctly) · ja ぺらぺら (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · hy սահունություն (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · es fluencia (quality of smoothness of flow) · ro fluiditate (quality of smoothness of flow) · ca fluïdesa (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · ms kefasihan (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · eo flueco (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · km ភាពស្ទាត់ជំនាញ (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · es facundia (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · pl biegłość (quality of smoothness of flow) · el ευφράδεια (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · ko 유창 (quality of smoothness of flow) · hu gördülékenység (quality of smoothness of flow) · hu könnyedség (quality of smoothness of flow) · is flæði (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · ro fluență (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · th ความคล่องแคล่ว (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · de Flüssigkeit (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · pl płynność (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · it scioltezza (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · el ευχέρεια (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · ja 流暢 (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · ja 流暢 (quality of smoothness of flow) · de Sprechflüssigkeit (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · ko 능숙도 (quality of consistently applying skill correctly) · cmn 流利 (linguistics: being fluent in a language) · cmn 流暢 /流畅 (quality of smoothness of flow) · pl biegłość (linguistics: being fluent in a language)