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fluency

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flu=en=cy

CIDE DICTIONARY

fluencyn. [L. fluentia: cf. F. fluence. See Fluent.].
     The quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility.  [1913 Webster]
    "The art of expressing with fluency and perspicuity."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fluency, n.
1 a smooth, easy flow, esp. in speech or writing.
2 a ready command of words or of a specified foreign language.

THESAURUS

fluency

Atticism, abundance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, amplitude, appropriateness, articulateness, big mouth, candor, chasteness, chastity, chylifaction, chylification, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clearness, cloud of words, comeliness, command, communicativeness, concourse, confluence, conflux, control, conversableness, copiousness, correctness, course, crosscurrent, current, defluxion, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, dignity, directness, discrimination, distinction, downflow, downpour, drift, driftage, ease, effortlessness, effusion, effusiveness, elegance, elegancy, eloquence, extravagance, exuberance, facility, fecundity, felicitousness, felicity, fertility, finish, fittingness, flow, flow of words, flowing, flowing periods, flowing tongue, fluent tongue, fluidity, fluidness, flux, flux de bouche, flux de paroles, flux of words, fluxility, fluxion, formlessness, frankness, garrulity, garrulousness, gassiness, gift of gab, glibness, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, gregariousness, gush, gushiness, gushing, inflow, juiciness, lactation, lactescence, limpidity, liquefaction, liquidness, logorrhea, long-windedness, loose tongue, loquaciousness, loquacity, lucidity, macrology, milkiness, mill run, millrace, moisture, naturalness, neatness, onrush, onward course, openness, outflow, outpour, overflow, palilogy, pellucidity, perspicuity, plainness, pleonasm, poetry, polish, prodigality, productivity, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificity, prolixity, propriety, purity, race, rampancy, rankness, redundancy, refinement, reiteration, reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitiveness, restraint, rheuminess, run, rush, sappiness, seemliness, serosity, set, simplicity, slickness, slush, smoothness, sociability, spate, spate of words, straightforwardness, stream, succulence, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, suppuration, surge, talkativeness, taste, tastefulness, tautology, teemingness, terseness, tide, tirade, trend, unaffectedness, undercurrent, undertow, verbosity, volubility, water flow, wateriness, windiness

ROGET THESAURUS

fluency

Loquacity

N loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness, garrulity, multiloquence, much speaking, jaw, gabble, jabber, chatter, prate, prattle, cackle, clack, twaddle, twattle, rattle, caquet, caquetterie, blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble, gibble-gabble, small talk, fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue, flow of words, flux de bouche, flux de mots, copia verborum, cacoethes loquendi, furor loquendi, verbosity, gift of the gab, talker, chatterer, chatterbox, babbler, rattle, ranter, sermonizer, proser, driveler, blatherskite, gossip, magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel, moulin a paroles, loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious, multiloquous, largiloquent, chattering, chatty, declamatory, open-mouthed, fluent, voluble, glib, flippant, long tongued, long winded, trippingly on the tongue, glibly, off the reel, the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue running on wheels, all talk and no cider, foul whisperings are abroad, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!.


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