"fluency" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈfluːənsi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-fluency.wav Forms: fluencies [plural]
Etymology: From Late Latin fluentia. Cognate with French fluence. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|LL.|fluentia}} Late Latin fluentia, {{cog|fr|fluence}} French fluence Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} fluency (countable and uncountable, plural fluencies)
  1. The quality of smoothness of flow. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (quality of smoothness of flow): սահունություն (sahunutʻyun) (Armenian), течливост (tečlivost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 流暢 (Chinese Mandarin), 流畅 (liúchàng) (Chinese Mandarin), virtaavuus (Finnish), nestemäisyys (Finnish), Flüssigkeit [feminine] (German), Fluss [masculine] (German), könnyedség (Hungarian), gördülékenység (Hungarian), folyékonyság (Hungarian), éascaíocht [feminine] (Irish), líofacht [feminine] (Irish), 流暢 (ryūchō) (alt: りゅうちょう) (Japanese), 유창 (yuchang) (Korean), biegłość [feminine] (Polish), fluidez [feminine] (Portuguese), fluiditate [feminine] (Romanian), fluență [feminine] (Romanian), бе́глость (béglostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), fluidez [feminine] (Spanish), fluyencia [feminine] (Spanish), akıcılık (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-fluency-en-noun-YCKRKquK Disambiguation of 'quality of smoothness of flow': 49 26 25
  2. (linguistics) The quality of being fluent in a language; A person's command of a particular language. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Linguistics, Talking Translations (linguistics: being fluent in a language): εὐρημοσύνη (eurēmosúnē) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), սահունություն (sahunutʻyun) (Armenian), արագախոսություն (aragaxosutʻyun) (Armenian), fluïdesa [feminine] (Catalan), 流利 (liúlì) (Chinese Mandarin), vlotheid [feminine] (Dutch), flueco (Esperanto), sujuvuus (Finnish), Sprechflüssigkeit [feminine] (German), Geläufigkeit [feminine, rare] (German), Flüssigkeit [feminine, usually] (German), ευφράδεια (effrádeia) [feminine] (Greek), ευχέρεια (efchéreia) [feminine] (Greek), רהיטות (r'hitut) (Hebrew), रवानी (ravānī) [feminine] (Hindi), folyékony nyelvtudás (Hungarian), flæði [neuter] (Icelandic), líofacht [feminine] (Irish), scioltezza [feminine] (Italian), ぺらぺら (perapera) (Japanese), 流暢 (ryūchō) (alt: りゅうちょう) (Japanese), ភាពស្ទាត់ជំនាញ (phiəp-stŏətcumniəñ) (Khmer), 유창 (yuchang) (Korean), 유려 (yuryeo) (Korean), lēvitās [feminine] (Latin), kefasihan (Malay), płynność (Polish), biegłość [feminine] (Polish), fluência [feminine] (Portuguese), fluență [feminine] (Romanian), свобо́дное владе́ние (svobódnoje vladénije) [neuter] (Russian), fluidez [feminine] (Spanish), fluencia [feminine] (Spanish), soltura [feminine] (Spanish), ความคล่องแคล่ว (Thai), akıcılık (Turkish), sự thành thạo (Vietnamese), rhuglder (Welsh)
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  3. The quality of consistently applying skill correctly in the manner of one well-practiced at it, requiring little deliberate thought to perform without mistakes Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (quality of consistently applying skill correctly): jártasság (Hungarian), 능숙도 (neungsukdo) (Korean), biegłość [feminine] (Polish), desenvoltura [feminine] (Spanish), desparpajo (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-fluency-en-noun--ChnA83n Disambiguation of 'quality of consistently applying skill correctly': 26 23 52
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: dysfluency, overfluency

Inflected forms

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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "líofacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "linguistics: being fluent in a language",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "scioltezza"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "perapera",
      "sense": "linguistics: being fluent in a language",
      "word": "ぺらぺら"
    },
    {
      "alt": "りゅうちょう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ryūchō",
      "sense": "linguistics: being fluent in a language",
      "word": "流暢"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "phiəp-stŏətcumniəñ",
      "sense": "linguistics: being fluent in a language",
      "word": "ភាពស្ទាត់ជំនាញ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "yuchang",
      "sense": "linguistics: being fluent in a language",
      "word": "유창"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "yuryeo",
      "sense": "linguistics: being fluent in a language",
      "word": "유려"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "linguistics: being fluent in a language",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lēvitās"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "linguistics: being fluent in a language",
      "word": "kefasihan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "linguistics: being fluent in a language",
      "word": "płynność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "linguistics: being fluent in a language",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "biegłość"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "linguistics: being fluent in a language",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fluência"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "linguistics: being fluent in a language",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fluență"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "svobódnoje vladénije",
      "sense": "linguistics: being fluent in a language",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "свобо́дное владе́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "linguistics: being fluent in a language",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fluidez"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "linguistics: being fluent in a language",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fluencia"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "linguistics: being fluent in a language",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "soltura"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "linguistics: being fluent in a language",
      "word": "ความคล่องแคล่ว"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "linguistics: being fluent in a language",
      "word": "akıcılık"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "linguistics: being fluent in a language",
      "word": "sự thành thạo"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "linguistics: being fluent in a language",
      "word": "rhuglder"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "quality of consistently applying skill correctly",
      "word": "jártasság"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "neungsukdo",
      "sense": "quality of consistently applying skill correctly",
      "word": "능숙도"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "quality of consistently applying skill correctly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "biegłość"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "quality of consistently applying skill correctly",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "desenvoltura"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "quality of consistently applying skill correctly",
      "word": "desparpajo"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "fluency"
  ],
  "word": "fluency"
}

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