What is the difference between literary and literacy?

Literacy is a related term of literary.

is relating to literature.

the ability to read.

(en adjective)

Relating to literature.

literary''' fame; a '''literary''' history; '''literary conversation

* Johnson

He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.

Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.

a literary man

* Mason

in the literary as well as fashionable world

Knowledgeable of literature or writing.

Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.

Bookish.

* (l)

* literary criticism * literary device * literary form * literary genre * literary technique * literary theory

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(literacies)

the ability to read

understanding of something (ex. computer literacy)

* illiteracy

* numeracy

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