English

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Etymology

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From cine- +‎ literacy.

Noun

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cineliteracy (uncountable)

  1. Familiarity with films and cinema.
    • 2005, Paul A. Woods, Quentin Tarantino: The Film Geek Files:
      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.