Fluency & Disfluency
In the world of aesthetics, the term "fluency" refers to things that are easy to perceive, parse, and integrate into our existing cognitive models of the world, while something that is "disfluent" doesn't fit neatly within such models, and as such can serve as a hurdle for comprehension and appreciation.
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