Word.ws English Dictionary

cineliteracy

cineliteracy noun: familiarity with films and cinema.

Noun

cineliteracy (uncountable)

  1. Familiarity with films and cinema.
    • It's easy to caricature Tarantino as a film geek cocooned in cineliteracy - but hard to think of another art form in which knowledge of the medium would be disparaged like this.2005, Paul A. Woods, Quentin Tarantino: The Film Geek Files

Origin of cineliteracy

From cine- + literacy.

Questions about cineliteracy

What does cineliteracy mean?
Cineliteracy means familiarity with films and cinema.
What part of speech is cineliteracy?
Cineliteracy is a noun.

Words near cineliteracy in the dictionary

  1. cinegenic
  2. cinegoer
  3. cinegoers
  4. cinegram
  5. cinegrams
  6. cineliteracy
  7. cineliterate
  8. Cinelli
  9. Cinellis
  10. cineloop
  11. cineloops

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cineliteracy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cineliteracy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cineliteracy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.