Illiteracy

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  • noun. The condition of being unable to read and write.
  • noun. An error, as in writing or speech, made by or thought to be characteristic of one who is illiterate.
  • noun. The condition or quality of being ignorant or unknowledgeable in a particular subject or field.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state of being illiterate; ignorance of letters; absence of education.
  • noun. An error in the use of letters; a literal or a literary error.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; lack of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write.
  • noun. An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The inability to read.
  • noun. The portion of a population unable to read, generally given as a percentage.
  • noun. A word, phrase, or grammatical turn thought to be characteristic of an illiterate person.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. ignorance resulting from not reading
  • noun. 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."
    Antonyms
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    literacy  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ignorance  inability  
    Rhyme
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    literacy  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    backwardness  defenselessness  destitution  genocide  homelessness  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ignorance  
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