proficiency

English

Alternative forms

• proficience

Etymology

From proficient or its etymon, Latin prōficiēns (present participle of prōficiō), +‎ -ency.

Pronunciation

• enPR: prəˈfiSHənsē, IPA^(key): /pɹəˈfɪʃənsi/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

proficiency (countable and uncountable, plural proficiencies)

1. Ability, skill, competence.

   a test of proficiency in English

   to attain (or to reach) proficiency

   • 2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     But Pirates! comes with all the usual Aardman strengths intact, particularly the sense that its characters and creators alike are too good-hearted and sweet to nitpick. The ambition is all in the craft rather than in the storytelling, but it’s hard to say no to the proficiency of that craft, or the mild good cheer behind it.

Synonyms

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• ability
• command
• competence
• skill
• See also Thesaurus:skill

Derived terms

• language proficiency
• proficiency badge

 

Translations

ability or skill

• Albanian: aftësi (sq) f
• Arabic: إِمْكَان m (ʔimkān)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: умение (bg) n (umenie), опитност (bg) f (opitnost)
• Catalan: habilitat (ca), competència (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水平 (zh) (shuǐpíng), 熟練／熟练 (zh) (shúliàn)

• Dutch: competentie (nl), vakkundigheid (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: pätevyys (fi), taitavuus (fi)
• French: compétence (fr)
• German: Kompetenz (de) f, Können (de) n, Begabung (de) f, Befähigung (de) f, Fähigkeit (de) f, Sachverständnis n, Sachkunde f, Beschlagenheit (de) f, Fertigkeit (de) f, Tüchtigkeit (de) f, Leistung (de) f
• Hindi: प्रवीणता (hi) f (pravīṇtā)
• Ido: kompetenteso (io)
• Italian: abilità (it), perizia (it), competenza (it), conoscenza (it)
• Japanese: 上達 (ja) (jyōtatsu), 習熟度 (shūjukudo), 習熟 (ja) (shūjuku), 熟練度 (jukurendo), 熟練 (ja) (jukuren)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: biegłość (pl) f
• Portuguese: proficiência (pt) f, capacidade (pt) f, competência (pt) f
• Romanian: competență (ro) f
• Russian: уме́ние (ru) n (uménije), спосо́бность (ru) f (sposóbnostʹ), мастерство́ (ru) n (masterstvó), сноро́вка (ru) f (snoróvka), на́вык (ru) m (návyk)
• Spanish: suficiencia (es), pericia (es), habilidad (es), aptitud (es) f, competencia (es) f
• Swedish: färdighet (sv) c, kunskap (sv) c, kunnighet (sv) c, begåvning (sv) c, skicklighet (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: ehliyet (tr), yeterlilik (tr), ustalık (tr)

Further reading

• “proficiency”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “proficiency” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.