articulateness

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English articulate Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English articulateness From articulate + -ness.

1. The quality of being articulate.

   “The elderly man, who had necessarily unmouthed the dagger to achieve this articulateness, smiled disarmingly.”

   ““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.”