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post-literacy

post-literacy is the alternative form of postliteracy.

Meaning of postliteracy

Noun

postliteracy (countable and uncountable, plural postliteracies)

  1. The decline of literacy.
    • The conventional wisdom is that the American public has lost faith in the humanities—and lost both competence and interest in reading and writing, possibly heralding a post-literacy age.2024 October 23, Tyler Austin Harper, “ChatGPT Doesn’t Have to Ruin College”, in The Atlantic

Forms of post-literacy

pluralpost-literacies

Questions about post-literacy

What is post-literacy the alternative form of?
Post-literacy is the alternative form of postliteracy.

Words near post-literacy in the dictionary

  1. post-leftists
  2. post-liberal
  3. post-liberalism
  4. post-liberals
  5. post-lingual deafness
  6. post-literacy
  7. post-literate
  8. post-marriage
  9. post-Marxism
  10. post-Marxist
  11. post-Marxists

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