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English Dictionary: fluency by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fluency
n
  1. powerful and effective language; "his eloquence attracted a large congregation"; "fluency in spoken and written English is essential"; "his oily smoothness concealed his guilt from the police"
    Synonym(s): eloquence, fluency, smoothness
  2. skillfulness in speaking or writing
    Antonym(s): disfluency
  3. the quality of being facile in speech and writing
    Synonym(s): fluency, volubility, articulateness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fluency \Flu"en*cy\, n. [L. fluentia: cf. F. fluence. See
      {Fluent}.]
      The quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of
      utterance; volubility.
  
               The art of expressing with fluency and perspicuity.
                                                                              --Macaulay.
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