fluency

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin fluentia. Cognate with French fluence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfluːənsi/

Noun

fluency (countable and uncountable, plural fluencies)

1. The quality of smoothness of flow
2. (linguistics) The quality of being fluent in a language; A person's command of a particular language.
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
   • 2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     While Gunners boss Arsene Wenger had warned his players against letting the pre-match festivities distract them from the task at hand, they clearly struggled for fluency early on.

Derived terms

• dysfluency

Translations

the qualities of smoothness of flow

• Armenian: սահունություն (hy) (sahunutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: течливост f (tečlivost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流暢／流畅 (zh) (liúchàng), 流畅 (zh) (liúchàng)

• Finnish: virtaavuus, nestemäisyys
• German: Geläufigkeit f
• Hungarian: könnyedség (hu), gördülékenység, folyékonyság
• Irish: éascaíocht f, líofacht f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 流暢 (ja) (りゅうちょう, ryūchō)
• Korean: 유창 (ko) (yuchang)
• Portuguese: fluidez (pt) f
• Romanian: fluiditate (ro) f, fluență (ro) f
• Russian: бе́глость (ru) f (béglostʹ)
• Spanish: fluidez (es) f
• Turkish: akıcılık (tr)

linguistics: being fluent in a language

• Armenian: սահունություն (hy) (sahunutʻyun), արագախոսություն (hy) (aragaxosutʻyun)
• Catalan: fluïdesa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流利 (zh) (liúlì)

• Dutch: vlotheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: flueco
• Finnish: sujuvuus (fi)
• German: Gewandtheit f
• Greek: ευφράδεια (el) f (effrádeia), ευχέρεια (el) f (efchéreia)
• Hebrew: רהיטות (r'hitut)
• Hindi: रवानी (hi) f (ravānī)
• Hungarian: folyékony nyelvtudás
• Icelandic: flæði n
• Irish: líofacht f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: scioltezza (it) f
• Japanese: ぺらぺら (perapera), 流暢 (ja) (りゅうちょう, ryūchō)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 유창 (ko) (yuchang), 유려 (ko) (yuryeo)
• Latin: lēvitās f
• Malay: kefasihan
• Polish: płynność (pl)
• Portuguese: fluência (pt) f
• Romanian: fluență (ro) f
• Russian: свобо́дное владе́ние n (svobódnoje vladénije)
• Spanish: fluidez (es) f
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: akıcılık (tr)
• Vietnamese: sự thành thạo
• Welsh: rhuglder (cy)

the quality of consistently applying skill correctly

• Hungarian: jártasság (hu)
• Korean: 능숙도 (neungsukdo)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: desenvoltura f, desparpajo (es)

References

• “fluency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.