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Illiteracy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The condition of being unable to read and write.

n. An error, as in writing or speech, made by or thought to be characteristic of one who is illiterate. See Usage Note at literate.

n. The condition or quality of being ignorant or unknowledgeable in a particular subject or field: cultural illiteracy; scientific illiteracy.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The inability to read.

n. The portion of a population unable to read, generally given as a percentage.

n. A word, phrase, or grammatical turn thought to be characteristic of an illiterate person.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; lack of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write.

n. An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state of being illiterate; ignorance of letters; absence of education.

n. An error in the use of letters; a literal or a literary error.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. ignorance resulting from not reading

n. an inability to read

Word Usage

"Our priorities are all wrong when a one-percent interest rate increase makes the headlines but a 10-percent increase in illiteracy is relegated to the back pages."

Antonym

literacy

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

ignorance inability

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

ignorance

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound