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literacy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun literacy has 1 sense
- literacy(n = noun.cognition) - the ability to read and write; is a kind of accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, attainment, skill
Antonym: illiteracy
OXFORD DICTIONARY
literacy, n. the ability to read and write.
Etymology
LITERATE + -ACY after illiteracy
THESAURUS
literacy
bibliolatry, bibliomania, bluestockingism, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, classical scholarship, classicism, culture, donnishness, eruditeness, erudition, humanism, humanistic scholarship, intellectualism, intellectuality, learnedness, letters, pedantism, pedantry, reading, scholarship
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