illiteracy
IPA: ɪɫˈɪtɝʌsi
noun
- (uncountable) The inability to read and write.
- (uncountable) The portion of a population unable to read and write, generally given as a percentage.
- (countable) A word, phrase, or grammatical turn thought to be characteristic of an illiterate person.
- (uncountable, by extension) Unlearnedness; the state of being ignorant or unlettered.
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Examples of "illiteracy" in Sentences
- Illiteracy was high among the adult.
- Illiteracy is the culprit of confusion on this.
- He stressed the importance of reducing illiteracy.
- Health illiteracy is a huge problem for providers.
- The biggest malady is their poverty and illiteracy.
- All it proves is the appalling extent of illiteracy.
- The white rate of illiteracy in the South was 31 percent.
- I guess they have all succumbed to the age of illiteracy.
- Illiteracy and the exploitation of the tribal people were rife.
- In the different regions the illiteracy rate varies considerably, though.
- At that time, there was extreme illiteracy and ignorance in the community.
- Wow George, did Reisman just say that functional illiteracy is easily fixed?
- Join us as we talk how illiteracy is pass down from generation to generation.
- A second major pattern in the public's economic illiteracy is make-work bias ...
- Ah, but such statistical illiteracy is confined to only a very few Britons and, um, quite a lot of Americans.
- Our priorities are all wrong when a one-percent interest rate increase makes the headlines but a 10-percent increase in illiteracy is relegated to the back pages.
- A word of warning is needed against the assumption of some writers who would exalt the genius of Ruysbroeck by dwelling on what they term his illiteracy and ignorance.
- They probably are invested in "literacy" as a social ideal -- and I don't think illiteracy is an acceptable alternative -- and from this perspective they really aren't interested in Literature at all: Any port in a storm will do.
- I am not saying any illiteracy is acceptable, of course, but they are obviously using much different methods to compute illiteracy than the US Dept. of Education uses and the Dept. of Education does rank the States, one would assume, using the same methodology for all States.