Postliterate

Quick meaning: Postliterate is an adjective meaning After the decline of literacy.

Meaning

After the decline of literacy.

Example Sentences

This is a period that some people call post-literate. Reading is in decline. Standardized-test scores are in decline.

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.

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: […].

Word Forms

• post-literate

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include postliterary, protoliteracy, postphilosophical, postpsychiatric, literatesque, post-romantic.

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