postliterate
postliterate adjective: after the decline of literacy.
Adjective
postliterate (not comparable)
- After the decline of literacy.
- Those who bemoan the self-absorption of the postliterate generation will be happy to know that before the self-indulgent, amateurish blog there was the self-indulgent, amateurish log.2008 January 20, David Kirby, “Pas de Deux”, in New York Times
- There were noises made briefly, a few years ago, about the idea that we were living in a post-literate world, in which the ability to make sense out of written words was somehow redundant, but those days are gone: words are more important than they ever were: […].2013 October 15, Neil Gaiman, “Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Forms of postliterate
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Origin of postliterate
From post- + literate.
Questions about postliterate
- What does postliterate mean?
- Postliterate means after the decline of literacy.
- What part of speech is postliterate?
- Postliterate is an adjective.
Words near postliterate in the dictionary
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