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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

fluentia

: cf. F.

fluence

. See

The quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility.

The art of expressing with

fluency

and perspicuity.

Macaulay.

Noun.

[L. fluens, from flue, to flow.]

The quality of flowing, applied to speech or language; smoothness; freedom from harshness; as fluency of numbers.

Readiness of utterance; facility of words; volubility; as fluency of speech; a speaker of remarkable fluency.

Affluence; abundance. Obs.