25,000 people die every day due to starvation.
3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Literacy \Lit"er*a*cy\ (l[i^]t"[~e]r*[.a]*s[y^]), noun State of being literate.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

literacy

noun: the ability to read and write [ant: {illiteracy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

24 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, scholarship

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