eloquence
noun
[ ˈɛləkwəns ]
• fluent or persuasive speaking or writing.
• "a preacher of great power and eloquence"
Similar:
oratory,
rhetoric,
grandiloquence,
magniloquence,
expressiveness,
articulacy,
articulateness,
fluency,
facility,
persuasiveness,
diction,
enunciation,
locution,
command of language,
power of speech,
gift of the gab,
way with words,
blarney,
Opposite:
inarticulacy,
Origin:
late Middle English: via Old French from Latin eloquentia, from eloqui ‘speak out’, from e- (variant of ex- ) ‘out’ + loqui ‘speak’.
