Associations to the word «Illiteracy»
Noun
- Literacy
- Malnutrition
- Poverty
- Homelessness
- Unemployment
- Ignorance
- Mortality
- Rate
- Superstition
- Expectancy
- Alcoholism
- Schooling
- Unesco
- Saharan
- Mina
- Cent
- Inability
- Hunger
- Negroes
- Percentage
- Racism
- Discrimination
- Nicaragua
- Lack
- Disparity
- Elimination
- Education
- Aids
- Wipe
- Enrollment
- Persistence
- Hanna
- Lenin
- Hiv
- Defendant
- Sanitation
- Combat
- Adult
- Spelling
- Corruption
- Immigration
- Bolivia
- Countryside
- Exploitation
- Fertility
- Level
- Problem
- Abuse
- Minority
- Productivity
- Addiction
- Emancipation
- Injustice
- Niger
- Shortage
- Morocco
- Access
- Suffrage
- Awareness
- Intellectual
- Ill
- Violence
- Counsel
- Employment
- Campaign
Adjective
Wiktionary
ILLITERACY, noun. (uncountable) The inability to read.
ILLITERACY, noun. (uncountable) The portion of a population unable to read, generally given as a percentage.
ILLITERACY, noun. (countable) A word, phrase, or grammatical turn thought to be characteristic of an illiterate person.
Dictionary definition
ILLITERACY, noun. Ignorance resulting from not reading.
ILLITERACY, noun. An inability to read.
Wise words
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could
conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly
sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had
this power.