literacy

literacy

noun

Definition of LITERACY

the understanding and information gained from being educated <he impressed everyone with his general literacy as well as his natural intelligence>

Synonyms erudition, knowledge, learnedness, learning, literacy, scholarship

Related Words culture, edification, enlightenment; reading; bookishness, pedantry

Near Antonyms functional illiteracy

Antonyms ignorance, illiteracy, illiterateness