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illiteracy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun illiteracy has 2 senses
- illiteracy(n = noun.cognition) Array - ignorance resulting from not reading; Array is a kind of ignorance
- illiteracy(n = noun.cognition) analphabetism - an inability to read; Array is a kind of inability
Antonym: literacy
CIDE DICTIONARY
illiteracy, n. [From Illiterate.].
- The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; lack of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census. [1913 Webster]
- An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder. [1913 Webster]"The many blunders and illiteracies of the first publishers of his [Shakespeare's] works." [1913 Webster]
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