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
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -
in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us
to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions
all of a color.