literacy

Noun

Meaning

State of being literate.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

schooling book learning ability to read and write reading proficiency writing proficiency science information study culture education experience knowledge training enlightenment ability
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Antonyms

illiteracy ignorance incomprehension insensitivity shallowness crudeness
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Hypernyms

skill acquisition accomplishment attainment acquirement

Related terms

letter literature literary literal literate numeracy

Phrases with the word

health literacy carbon literacy non-academic literacy age of literacy post-literacy mental health literacy

Anagrams

acrylite

Examples

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. Marshall McLuhan

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. Alberto Moravia

I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote. Ann Coulter

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. George W. Bush

Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy. John Derbyshire

Internet literacy must become universal within the Arab world. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

Close letter words and terms

liter liter of milk literacide literae humaniores literage literal