Word Study
literacy
OXFORD DICTIONARY
literacy, n. the ability to read and write.
Etymology
LITERATE + -ACY after illiteracy
THESAURUS
literacy
bibliolatry, bibliomania, bluestockingism, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, classical scholarship, classicism, culture, donnishness, eruditeness, erudition, humanism, humanistic scholarship, intellectualism, intellectuality, learnedness, letters, pedantism, pedantry, reading, scholarshipFor further exploring for "literacy" in Webster Dictionary Online