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e-literacy

e-literacy noun: the quality or degree of being e-literate.

Noun

e-literacy (usually uncountable, plural e-literacies)

  1. (usually) The quality or degree of being e-literate.
    • E-literacy derives not from bibliophobia, then, but from the miraculous and evolving advent of digital technology, the Information Age and the Electronic Word.2008, Mark Bauerlein, The Dumbest Generation, →ISBN, page 67

Forms of e-literacy

plurale-literacies

Origin of e-literacy

From e- + literacy or e-literate + -cy.

Questions about e-literacy

What does e-literacy mean?
E-literacy means the quality or degree of being e-literate.
What part of speech is e-literacy?
E-literacy is a noun.
What is the plural of e-literacy?
The plural of e-literacy is e-literacies.

Words near e-literacy in the dictionary

  1. e-liquid
  2. e-liquids
  3. e-list
  4. e-lists
  5. e-literacies
  6. e-literacy
  7. e-literate
  8. e-literature
  9. e-lotteries
  10. e-lottery
  11. e-magazine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: e-literacy (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.

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