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

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche