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, words, words! They shut one off from the universe.
Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with
things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.