cineliteracy

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noun

Familiarity with films and cinema.

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Meanings

nouncineliteracy (uncountable)
  1. uncountableFamiliarity with films and cinema.

    It's easy to caricature Tarantino as a film geek cocooned in cineliteracy - but hard to think of another art form in which knowledge of the medium would be disparaged like this.

    2005, Paul A. Woods, Quentin Tarantino: The Film Geek Files

Origin

From cine- + literacy.

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APA

cineliteracy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cineliteracy

MLA

“cineliteracy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cineliteracy. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cineliteracy,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cineliteracy.

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