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Synonyms for fluency


Grammar : Noun
Spell : floo-uh nt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈflu ənt



Définition of fluency

Origin :
  • 1620s, "abundance," later "smooth and easy flow" (1630s), from fluent + -cy. Replaced earlier fluence (c.1600).
  • noun ease of expression
Example sentences :
  • Also it discusses local affairs with fluency and more or less point.
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Eri » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • Yet his fluency never ran off into the fatal channels of verbosity.
  • Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) » by John Morley
  • He passed this off as a sort of reflection on his fluency of words.
  • Extract from : « Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati » by Warren C. Herrick
  • His manner, his voice, his diction, his fluency were alike the subject of praise.
  • Extract from : « Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 » by Various
  • She could speak Latin with fluency and Greek moderately well.
  • Extract from : « History of the English People » by John Richard Green
  • Her fluency of speech was increasing out of all proportion to her age.
  • Extract from : « The Squirrel-Cage » by Dorothy Canfield
  • I despair of ever being able to speak this language with fluency.
  • Extract from : « The Music Master » by Charles Klein
  • He read that crabbed and difficult Greek with a fluency that surprised me.
  • Extract from : « A Strange Story, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • He could read with fluency, and had plenty of cunning intelligence.
  • Extract from : « The Rainbow » by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
  • He was astonished at his fluency, because his mind was stammering and his hands twitching.
  • Extract from : « The Forsyte Saga, Complete » by John Galsworthy

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