postliterate

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English

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Etymology

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From post- +‎ literate.

Adjective

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postliterate (not comparable)

  1. After the decline of literacy.
    • 2008 January 20, David Kirby, “Pas de Deux”, in New York Times[1]:
      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.