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proficience

From proficient or its etymon, Latin prōficiēns (present participle of prōficiō), +‎ -ency.[1]

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

proficiency (countable and uncountable, plural proficiencies)

Ability, skill, competence.
to attain (or to reach) proficiency
a test of proficiency in English
- 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.

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)
Galician: competencia (gl) f
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
Hebrew: בקיאות
Hindi: प्रवीणता (hi) f (pravīṇtā), कुशलता (hi) f (kuśaltā)
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, proficiencia 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)

^ “proficiency, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “proficiency”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
“proficiency” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.

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