postliterate

12 letters · adjective · scores 3,800 in SpellHuntr

adjective

After the decline of literacy.

Postliterate in a sentence

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

Rather, they are losing the higher-order abilities of comprehension and synthesis. America, in other words, isn’t illiterate. It’s postliterate.

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