Literacy

English

Noun

Literacy (plural literacies)

1. the ability to read
2. understanding of something (ex. computer literacy)

Antonyms

• illiteracy

Related terms

• letter
• literal
• literary
• literate
• literature

Thesaurus

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

Etymology

From literate + -cy

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈlɪtəɹəsi/

• Audio (US)

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Translations

ability to read

Croatian: pȉsmenōst (hr) f. Czech: gramotnost (cs) f. Dutch: alfabetisering, alfabetisme Finnish: lukutaito (fi) French: littératie (fr) littérisme (fr), alphabétisme (fr) m. German: Lese- und Schreibfähigkeit (de) f. Italian: alfabetismo (it), alfabetizzazione (it)

Kurdish: Sorani: خوێنده‌واری (ku) (xwéndewarí) Portuguese: alfabetização, alfabetismo Russian: грамотность (grámotnost`) f. Scottish Gaelic: litearrachd (gd) f. Serbian: pismenost (sr) f. Spanish: alfabetismo (es) m.

understanding of something

Croatian: pȉsmenōst (hr) f. Czech: gramotnost (cs) f. Finnish: lukutaito (fi)

German: Kenntnisse (de) f. pl., Bildung (de) f. Russian: грамотность (ru) f. Scottish Gaelic: litearrachd (gd) f.

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Telugu: అక్షరాస్యత (aksharaasyata)

External links

• Literacy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Literacy in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911