Social fluency is the concept of demonstrating proficiency in social situations and/or inter-personal relations. Social Fluency is frequently discussed in the academic areas of social interaction, psychological anthropology and social development. Various schools of philosophy, chiefly virtue ethics, compare social fluency to wittiness and clearly illustrate it as a desirable personality trait.
Social fluency has also been declared a synonym for social processing speed.
American academic M.J. Packer illustrated the importance of Social Fluency in his 1987 work Social interaction as practical activity: Implications for the study of social and moral development. He declared "I want to propose that social fluency is at least as important a telos for social development as the formation of explicit theories, principles and hypotheses about the social world... More explicitly, social development consists in (sic) increasingly broadened fluency: becoming socially fluent in an increased range of situations and subworlds...”