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postliterate

adj

Etymology

From post- + literate.

  1. derived from lītterātus
  2. inherited from litterate
  3. prefixed as postliterate — “post + literate”

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • Writing in The Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch links this to the rise of a post-literate culture in which we consume most of our media through smartphones, eschewing dense text in favor of images and short-form video.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for postliterate. 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