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literacy

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of literacy

the understanding and information gained from being educated

he impressed everyone with his general literacy as well as his natural intelligence

Synonyms of literacy

education, erudition, knowledge, learnedness, learning, scholarship

Words Related to literacy

culture, edification, enlightenment

bookishness, pedantry

Near Antonyms of literacy

functional illiteracy

Antonyms of literacy

ignorance, illiteracy, illiterateness

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