Literary vs. Literacy: What's the Difference?

Literaryadjective

Relating to literature.

‘literary fame’; ‘a literary history’; ‘literary conversation’;

Literacynoun

The ability to read and write.

Literaryadjective

Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.

‘a literary man’;

Literacynoun

Understanding of something (ex. computer literacy).

Literaryadjective

Knowledgeable of literature or writing.

Literacynoun

State of being literate.

Literaryadjective

Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.

Literacynoun

the ability to read and write

Literaryadjective

Bookish.

Literacy

Literacy is popularly understood as an ability to read and write in at least one method of writing, an understanding reflected by mainstream dictionaries. In this view, illiteracy would be considered to be the inability to read and write.Some researchers suggest that the history of interest in the concept of “literacy” can be divided into two periods.

Literaryadjective

Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation.

‘He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.’;

Literaryadjective

Versed in, or acquainted with, literature; occupied with literature as a profession; connected with literature or with men of letters; as, a literary man.

‘In the literary as well as fashionable world.’;

Literaryadjective

of or relating to or characteristic of literature;

‘literary criticism’;

Literaryadjective

knowledgeable about literature;

‘a literary style’;

Literaryadjective

appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing;

‘when trying to impress someone she spoke in an affected literary style’;

Literaryadjective

concerning the writing, study, or content of literature, especially of the kind valued for quality of form