Antiliterate

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Opposed to literacy or literature.

    "Kerouac's orality, learned growing up in a relatively antiliterate culture, encouraged him to generate sound continually."

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"Kerouac's orality, learned growing up in a relatively antiliterate culture, encouraged him to generate sound continually."

Etymology

From anti- + literate.

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