fluencies
Effortless language commands
Fluencies is the plural of fluency, the quality of flowing smoothly and effortlessly.
Most often it describes language ability: someone with fluencies in Spanish and Mandarin can speak both with ease.
The word extends to any skill performed without hesitation—musical fluencies, mathematical fluencies.
Her fluencies in multiple programming languages made her invaluable to the team.
Complete skill or control
- proficiencySkilled performance level
- competenceAdequate ability to function
- expertiseSkill from extensive practice
- adeptnessHighly developed ability
facility · command · ease · naturalness · automaticity · effortlessness · aptitude · capability
Ability to speak clearly
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
- oratoryFormal eloquent discourse
- elocutionFormal speaking skill
- expressivenessAbility to convey emotion
diction · persuasion · silver-tongued · verbosity · grandiloquence · cogency · perspicuity · volubility
Speaking two languages
- trilingualSpeaking three languages
- polyglotOne knowing many languages
- multilingualKnowing multiple languages
- code-switchingAlternating between linguistic varieties
translation · interpretation · accents · dialects · pronunciation · idioms · grammar · syntax
Self-generating action capacity
- recallMemory retrieval act
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- decodingExtracting meaning from symbols
- comprehensionMental understanding of meaning
mastery
Complete skill or control
- proficiencySkilled performance level
- competenceAdequate ability to function
- expertiseSkill from extensive practice
adeptness · facility · command · ease · naturalness · automaticity · effortlessness · aptitude · capability · dexterity
articulacy
Ability to speak clearly
expressiveness · diction · persuasion · silver-tongued · verbosity · grandiloquence · cogency · perspicuity · volubility · glibness
bilingual
Speaking two languages
- trilingualSpeaking three languages
- polyglotOne knowing many languages
- multilingualKnowing multiple languages
code-switching · translation · interpretation · accents · dialects · pronunciation · idioms · grammar · syntax · vocabulary
automaticity
Self-generating action capacity
- recallMemory retrieval act
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- decodingExtracting meaning from symbols
fluenciesstammering
Involuntary speech repetition
stuttering · halting speech · hesitations · faltering · speech impediments
fluenciesineptitudes
Instances of lacking skill
incompetencies · deficiencies · awkwardnesses · clumsiness · inexperience
fluenciesblockages
Things stopping flow
mental blocks · incoherences · confusions · disorganization · fragmentation
influence, fluid, fluent, fluency, affluent, influx, affluence, confluence, influences