Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being articulate.
The elderly man, who had necessarily unmouthed the dagger to achieve this articulateness, smiled disarmingly.
2010, Michael Innes, Honeybath's Haven, page 281 more example
“Communicative injustice” refers to the fact that second-language learning generally does not lead to a command of a language that is equivalent to that possessed by native speakers: the latter usually have higher degrees of fluency, expressiveness, articulateness and eloquence in almost all communicative situations when it is used.
2022, Sabine Fiedler, Cyril Robert Brosch, “What is a lingua franca?” (chapter 2), in Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 11
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe quality of being facile in speech and writing
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Norwegian Bokmål taleførhet
- taleførhetquality of being articulate
Spanish elocuencia, fluidez
- elocuenciaquality of being articulate
- fluidezquality of being articulate
Cite this entry
articulateness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/articulateness
“articulateness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/articulateness. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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