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articulateness

articulateness noun: the quality of being articulate.

Noun

articulateness (uncountable)

  1. The 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 28
    • “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...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...

Origin of articulateness

From articulate + -ness.

Questions about articulateness

What does articulateness mean?
Articulateness means the quality of being articulate.
What part of speech is articulateness?
Articulateness is a noun.

Words near articulateness in the dictionary

  1. articulated lorry
  2. articulated skeleton
  3. articulated skeletons
  4. articulateds
  5. articulately
  6. articulateness
  7. articulates
  8. articulating
  9. articulation
  10. Articulation Index
  11. Articulation Indexes

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