illiteracy
noun/ɪˈlɪtəɹəsi/
Etymology
From il- + literacy.
Definitions
The inability to read and write.
- Illiteracy is widespread in certain areas of the country.
The portion of a population unable to read and write, generally given as a percentage.
A word, phrase, or grammatical turn thought to be characteristic of an illiterate person.
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Unlearnedness
Unlearnedness; the state of being ignorant or unlettered.
The neighborhood
- synonymanalphabetism
- antonymliteracy
- neighboraliteracy
- neighborilliterate
- neighboralphabetism
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for illiteracy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA