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Literacy vs Postliterate - What's the difference?

literacy | postliterate |

As a noun literacy

is the ability to read.

As an adjective postliterate is

after the decline of literacy.

literacy

English

Noun

(literacies)
  • the ability to read
  • understanding of something (ex. computer literacy)

    • Antonyms

    * illiteracy

    Derived terms

    * numeracy

    Related terms

    * letter * literal * literary * literate * literature

    External links

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    postliterate

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • After the decline of literacy.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=January 20, author=David Kirby, title=Pas de Deux, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Those who bemoan the self-absorption of the postliterate generation will be happy to know that before the self-indulgent, amateurish blog there was the self-indulgent, amateurish log. }}