Thesaurus: illiteracy

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1. n. The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; want of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census.
2. n. An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder.
3. n. ignorance resulting from not reading
4. n. an inability to read
5. 1. The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; want of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census. 2. An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder. The many blunders and illiteracies of the first publishers of his [Shakespeare's] works. Pope.
6. n:100 n. ignorance resulting from not reading n. an inability to read