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literacy

Pronunciation:  'liturusee

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 Definition: [n]  the ability to read and write
 
 Antonyms: illiteracy
 
 See Also: accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, attainment, skill

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Lit"er*a*cy\, n.
State of being literate.

 
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 Related Terms: 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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