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illiteracy

[ih-lit-er-uh-see] / ɪˈlɪt ər ə si /
NOUN
inability to read or write
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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He referred to a 10-point plan that Caribbean nations have put to European nations, including international debt cancellation, as well as support for healthcare and illiteracy eradication.

From Barron's May 28, 2026

Is it laziness, illiteracy or the ultimate flex?

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 11, 2026

She fears that the absence of this support, due to fear and lack of funds, could increase rates of illiteracy.

From BBC Feb. 19, 2025

In a lesser-known history, the federal government helped bring public education to Southern white children, whose illiteracy rates prior to Reconstruction were five times as high as in the North.

From Slate Feb. 6, 2025

But what she wanted to do, in essence, was create a learning epidemic to counter the prevailing epidemics of poverty and illiteracy.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

Oborne and Roberts usefully memorialise Trump at his most naively tawdry, and preserve some treasurable illiteracies.

From The Guardian Nov. 1, 2020

Particularly as they addressed themselves to missionaries, they wished to warn them away from such illiteracies as might undermine their capacities to propagate the faith.

From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Richard L. Spear




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