aliteracy

noun

Etymology

From a- + literacy.

Definitions

  1. The state of having the ability to read, but lacking interest in doing so.

    • Curiously the perfect weapon against rampant aliteracy emerged more than 50 years ago in the form of an utterly addictive synthesis of word and picture: the comic book.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for aliteracy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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