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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.

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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. n:100 n. ignorance resulting from not reading n. an inability to read