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Fluency vs Verbality - What's the difference?

fluency | verbality |

As nouns the difference between fluency and verbality

is that fluency is the quality of smoothness of flow while verbality is the state or characteristic of consisting of words; that which consists simply of verbiage.

fluency

English

Noun

(wikipedia fluency) (fluencies)
  • 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
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 10 , author=David Ornstein , title=Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton , work=BBC Sport 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.}}

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    verbality

    English

    Noun

    (verbalities)
  • The state or characteristic of consisting of words; that which consists simply of verbiage.
  • * 1914 , , "Dr. Mercier and Formal Logic," Mind , New Series, vol. 23, no. 92, p. 568:
    • For my own investigations of traditional logic lead irresistably to the conclusion that it is essentially an equivocation between psychology and verbality .
  • * 1989 , A. Kibédi Varga, "Criteria for Describing Word-and-Image Relations," Poetics Today , vol. 10, no. 1, p. 37:
    • In other words, to read a visual poem is to betray it; to restore it to verbality is to eliminate half of its meaning.
  • Proficiency or fluency in the use of words.
  • * 1966 , Shirley S. Angrist, "Communication about Birth Control: An Exploratory Study of Freshman Girls' Information and Attitudes," Journal of Marriage and Family , vol. 28, no. 3, p. 285:
    • Generally, high communicators were found to be: college majors in humanities or natural sciences, Jewish or Catholic persons, first-born or only children, and those high in verbality .

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