literacy

English Online Dictionary. What means literacy‎? What does literacy mean?

English

Etymology

From literate + -cy.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪtəɹəsi/, /ˈlɪtɹəsi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪtəɹəsi/, [-ɾ(ə)ɹə-], /ˈlɪtɹəsi/
• Hyphenation: li‧ter‧a‧cy

Noun

literacy (countable and uncountable, plural literacies)

1. The ability to read and write.
2. (by extension) The ability to understand and evaluate something.

Antonyms

• illiteracy

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Further reading

• “literacy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “literacy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.