fluency

English

From Late Latin fluentia. Cognate with French fluence.

fluency (countable and uncountable, plural fluencies)

The quality of smoothness of flow.
- 1996, Vera Morris; Bill Francoeur, A Little Princess: The Musical: Adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “Sara Crewe”, Denver, Colo.: Pioneer Drama Service, OCLC 903971954, Act I, scene i, page 4:
  She has fluency, nobility, / Elegance and symmetry, / Stability, fluidity, / Like poetry in motion.
(linguistics) The quality of being fluent in a language; A person's command of a particular language.
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:
  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.

quality of smoothness of flow

linguistics: being fluent in a language

Armenian: սահունություն (hy) (sahunutʿyun), արագախոսություն (hy) (aragaxosutʿyun)
Catalan: fluïdesa (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 流利 (zh) (liúlì)
Dutch: vlotheid (nl) f
Esperanto: flueco
Finnish: sujuvuus (fi)
German: usually expressed using the adverb flüssig (de), Sprechflüssigkeit f, rare: Geläufigkeit f, usually for skill and elegance in a native language: Flüssigkeit (de) f
Greek: ευφράδεια (el) f (effrádeia), ευχέρεια (el) f (efchéreia)
Ancient Greek: εὐρημοσύνη f (eurēmosúnē)
Hebrew: רהיטות‎ (r'hitut)
Hindi: रवानी (hi) f (ravānī)
Hungarian: folyékony nyelvtudás
Icelandic: flæði n
Irish: líofacht f
Italian: scioltezza (it) f
Japanese: ぺらぺら (perapera), 流暢 (ja) (りゅうちょう, ryūchō)
Khmer: ភាពស្ទាត់ជំនាញ (phiəp-stŏətcumniəñ)
Korean: 유창 (ko) (yuchang), 유려 (ko) (yuryeo)
Latin: lēvitās f
Malay: kefasihan (ms)
Polish: płynność (pl), biegłość (pl) f
Portuguese: fluência (pt) f
Romanian: fluență (ro) f
Russian: свобо́дное владе́ние n (svobódnoje vladénije)
Spanish: fluidez (es) f
Thai: ความคล่องแคล่ว (th)
Turkish: akıcılık (tr)
Vietnamese: sự thành thạo
Welsh: rhuglder (cy)

quality of consistently applying skill correctly