Literacy vs. Literature

Literacy and Literature Definitions
Literacy
The condition or quality of being literate, especially the ability to read and write. See Usage Note at literate.
Literature
The body of written works of a language, period, or culture.
Literacy
The condition or quality of being knowledgeable in a particular subject or field
Cultural literacy.
Biblical literacy.
Literature
Imaginative or creative writing, especially of recognized artistic value
"Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity" (Rebecca West).
Literacy
The ability to read and write.
Literature
The art or occupation of a literary writer.
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Literacy
The ability to understand and evaluate something.
Computer literacy; media literacy
Literature
The body of written work produced by scholars or researchers in a given field
Medical literature.
Literacy
State of being literate.
Literature
Printed material
Collected all the available literature on the subject.
Literacy
The ability to read and write
Literature
(Music) All the compositions of a certain kind or for a specific instrument or ensemble
The symphonic literature.
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Literature
The body of all written works.
Literature
The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
Literature
(usually preceded by the) All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
Literature
Written fiction of a high standard.
However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature, because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008
Literature
Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.
Literature
The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.
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Literature
The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres.
Literature
The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.
The origin of all positive science and philosophy, as well as of all literature and art, in the forms in which they exist in civilized Europe, must be traced to the Greeks.
Learning thy talent is, but mine is sense.
Some gentlemen, abounding in their university erudition, fill their sermons with philosophical terms.
Literature
Creative writing of recognized artistic value
Literature
The humanistic study of a body of literature;
He took a course in Russian lit
Literature
Published writings in a particular style on a particular subject;
The technical literature
One aspect of Waterloo has not yet been treated in the literature
Literature
The profession or art of a writer;
Her place in literature is secure