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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