Literacy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Literacy \Lit"er*a*cy\ (l[i^]t"[~e]r*[.a]*s[y^]), n.
     State of being literate.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  literacy
       n : the ability to read and write [ant: {illiteracy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "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