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fluency

Noun

Meaning

The quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility.

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Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve. Henry Miller

It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales. Stanley Fish

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language. Harry Mathews

I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to be Muslim. Reza Aslan

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. Cicero

The most praised form of fluency is silence when talk isn't wise. Arabic Proverb

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