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
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and
in fewer words than prose.