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say it: FLOO-uhn-see
fluency is a noun meaning "powerful and effective language". It carries 3 recorded senses.
powerful and effective language
“his eloquence attracted a large congregation”
“fluency in spoken and written English is essential”
“his oily smoothness concealed his guilt from the police”
skillfulness in speaking or writing
the quality of being facile in speech and writing
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fluency come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.