Obs. rare. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being fluent; fluency.
1652. Cotterell, trans. Cassandra, I. iv. (1667), 692. In tearms so little coherent, and so little proportionable to, the usual fluentnesse of his expression.
1654. W. Montagu, Miscellanea Spiritualia: or Devout Essaies, II. v. § 3. 96. The fluentness and inconsistencie of time has not this inconvenience, to deny us the taking a dimension of it.
1706. in Phillips (ed. Kersey).
1721. in Bailey.
