literacy

noun
/ˈlɪtəɹəsi/UK/ˈlɪtəɹəsi/CA/ˈlɪtɹəsi/

Etymology

From literate + -cy.

Definitions

  1. The ability to read and write.

  2. The ability to understand and evaluate something.

    • computer literacy
    • media literacy
    • Prof Alan McKee, who led the project, argues that young adults should be taught “porn literacy” to help them “read porn well” and look for healthy and ethical depictions of sex.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for literacy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA