1The quality or condition of being fluent.

1. 1.1 The ability to speak or write a foreign language easily and accurately.
   fluency in Spanish is essential

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   • Perhaps it's an artistic ability or language fluency.
   • Dos Santos is young, intelligent, highly qualified and speaks several languages with impeccable fluency.
   • Often each also has his own style of handwriting, announced gender, cultural and racial background, artistic talents, foreign language fluency, and IQ.
   • They helped and taught one another how to make pop-ups, increased fluency in their specific foreign language, and asked one another questions about color, design and layout.
   • Compared with their peers, diviners excel in insight, imagination, fluency in language, and knowledge of cultural traditions.
   • Beginning readers of an alphabetic language achieve fluency and skill as they develop an understanding of the sound-letter patterns within their writing system.
   • Country schools, whose pupils were needed to work the land and whose instructors were not always professionally certified, generally offered training in basic skills rather than fluency in written language.
   • His fluency with languages was noted, being able to speak English and French as well as his native German, and after two months he was given the option to join a UN peace-keeping force in Cyprus.
   • ‘Language fluency and communication form the rock foundation of the general skills,’ said Mr. Pallath.
   • She astounded me with her intelligence, her fluency in many foreign languages, and her fantastic chess skill.
   • In this article, it will be argued that the proceduralization of linguistic knowledge is the most important factor in the development of fluency in advanced second language learners.
   • Their definitions are compatible with the Steiner curriculum: the teaching of emotional intelligence; lateral, creative thinking, and fluency in foreign languages.
   • This point is important because we cannot assume that a single psychologically constructed test will accurately describe language fluency.
   • By the way, I'm simplifying here by classing written and spoken fluency as the same thing.
   • Verhoeven identified the effect of the first language on the second language in literacy, vocabulary, and language fluency, but not in morphology and syntax.
   • By second grade, the goal is that most students have developed sufficient fluency in both languages to understand directions and subject-area instruction in either language.
   • They both used the phrase ‘uniquely human’ to describe certain cognitive abilities, such as language fluency and representational thought.
   • Technical competence in medicine requires fluency in clinical language.
   • That's because every person's typing style is the product of individual characteristics including finger length, dexterity, motor skills, and language fluency.
   • He was unusual in his ability to speak Czech with some fluency; he would not accept with his father's readiness the pragmatic cultural compromises adopted by so many among Prague's Jewish community.

   Synonyms

   articulacy, facility, ability to speak or write … easily and accurately
2. 1.2 The ability to express oneself easily and articulately.
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   • We conclude that the quantitative and qualitative evidence supports the contention that increases in fluency are attributable mainly to increases in the degree of proceduralization of knowledge.
   • The cursing continued for some time, barely audible, and showing a fluency that even more jaded Institute graduates would have been shocked at.
   • He was one of those rare writers who could express himself verbally with a fluency that equalled his literary ability.
   • The grownups just laughed and commented on our intelligence and fluency.
   • She wore Indian dresses and spoke Urdu and Persian with fluency and French and English with a poor flow.
   • With some professional help and regular self-therapy, he was able to develop fluency in most speech situations.
   • The women danced to declare their fluency of expression and the knowledge it implied, and they did so unencumbered by the kin group duties that attended such displays.
   • Her technique was characterized by a huge jump, lyrical fluency, and a classical purity of style.
   • He found music students lacking in fluency and expressiveness.
   • Don Eckelberry was a rare individual who possessed wide-ranging fluency of expression in his conversation, his writing, and in his painting.
   • He possessed an artist's intuition and a fluency with articulate meanings.
   • Intelligence and verbal fluency are not necessarily linked, as listening to 30 minutes of commercial radio will attest.
   • But then in his post-victory remarks, the candidate went on and on and on, boringly, without the lift and eloquence and fluency of even his opponent.
   • In addition, as a U.S. Army veteran of the Persian Gulf War, the author brings to the analysis a fluency on strategic issues that military readers are certain to appreciate.
   • Even the US Supreme Court, unrenowned for its fluency in articulating harms, has recognized that fact.
   • They eagerly turned to literature printed in the East to acquire fluency in the expressive, if nonverbal, rhetoric made possible by this new sensibility.
   • He, of course, noted her paralysis, but also noted an impairment in naming things and in verbal fluency, difficulties in expressing herself, in reading a paragraph and slowness in learning.
   • He covers issues like drug abuse and self-harm with considerable fluency and character and when he's not tackling world issues, sloppy commercial hip hop receives a shrewd and poetic put down.
   • In Britain, because of the historical importance of parliament, we place a higher value on verbal fluency in our national leaders.
   • This means you are highly intelligent and have the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist.

   Synonyms

   eloquence, articulacy, articulateness, expressiveness, communicativeness, coherence, cogency, intelligibility, comprehensibility, lucidity, vividness, persuasiveness, glibness, volubility
3. 1.3 Gracefulness and ease of movement or style.
   the horse was jumping with breathtaking fluency

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   • For the discerning traveller, it offers an insight into Kerala's unique features and characteristic identity through the dazzling fluency of the brush of Maqbool Fida Husain.
   • Usually, ‘translationese’ is a term of opprobrium, applied (often rightly) to translations which fail to achieve fluency or elegance.
   • The music he wrote for the Catholic monarchs Henry VIII and Mary has a fluency to it which suggests a mind fully at ease with its circumstances.
   • His playing has a wonderful fluency and easy style; the phrasing seems utterly instinctive, and there's not a moment when he seems to be making expressive effects for their own sake.
   • The class I took at Equinox in Pasadena, California, reawakened my appreciation of the fluency of movement that sets ballet dancers apart from other athletes.
   • The extra inches, or the pounds of fat can change you from a reliable, taut little performer into a gangly, clumsy lump who loses all sense of fluency and movement.
   • It seemed that Dunfermline sensed this and while their opponents struggled for fluency and found themselves running down blind alleys, they regularly glimpsed the Celtic goal.
   • And here was Celtic finding early-season fluency with impressive ease.
   • The improved fluency allowed the Hockeyroos to find their attacking rhythm, with three of the five goals the result of well-executed and creative play.
   • He writes here, as usual, with grace, energy, and fluency.
   • At our best, we can construct word-maps dense with correspondences of breathtaking elegance and fluency.
   • They are dealing with a footballer whose physical attributes, swift fluency of movement and richness of technique equip him to be the most accomplished centre-back in the game.
   • Michael Barber manages to include such information without ever causing congestion in the fluency of his style.
   • Forsythe's fluency of movement is revealed as he attempts to sever the control that the mind places over the body and dissolves into pure movement.
   • She discerned the grander design beyond the individual elements, marrying astounding difficulty with fluency and grace.
   • In cold but bright conditions, both sides struggled to find any fluency.
   • This is a charmingly imaginative and atmospheric book, written with an easy grace and fluency.
   • Laois never moved with the same fluency or style as when they powered to the Leinster title in 2003.
   • Not all Mamas' works necessarily demonstrate this effortless fluency with his chosen medium.
   • Walsh, though, preferred to stalk his rival down the railway fences along the back straight, where rhythm and fluency are the key to preserving precious energy for the stamina-sapping uphill finish.