illiteracy

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    ignorance resulting from not reading
    an inability to read

Word Origin

illiteracy (n.)
1650s, from illiterate + -cy. Earlier in this sense was illiterature (1590s).

Antonym

Example

1. Child malnutrition and adult illiteracy were eliminated .
2. Illiteracy and poverty once denied the pleasure of reading to many latin americans .
3. India tolerated dissent , but it also tolerated inefficiency , disease and illiteracy .
4. Rates of poverty and illiteracy are much higher in democratic india than in authoritarian china .
5. Statistics suggest dalit poverty , infant mortality and illiteracy are much worse than the average .

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