fluency

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FLU'ENCY, noun [Latin fluens, from flue, to flow.] 1. The quality of flowing, applied to speech or language; smoothness; freedom from harshness; as fluency of numbers. 2. Readiness of utterance; facility of words; volubility; as fluency of speech; a speaker of remarkable fluency 3. Affluence; abundance. obsolete
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