Postliterate

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    After the decline of literacy. not-comparable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From post- + literate.

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