Fluency vs Coherence - What's the difference?
fluency | coherence |
The quality of smoothness of flow
(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
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, year=2011
, date=December 10
, author=David Ornstein
, title=Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton
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Quality of cohering; of being coherent; internal consistency.
a logical arrangement of parts
(physics, of waves) the property of having the same wavelength and phase.
(linguistics) Semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.
As nouns the difference between fluency and coherence
is that fluency is the quality of smoothness of flow while coherence is coherence, consistence, consistency.fluency
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Noun
(wikipedia fluency) (fluencies)citation, page= , passage=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.}}
References
*coherence
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- ''His arguments lacked coherence .