Associations to the word «Illiteracy»

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

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Kahlil Gibran