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Another word for illiteracy

Noun

  1. The condition of being ignorant; lack of knowledge or learning

    2. See also:

    knowledge

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Another word for illiteracy

Noun
    2. See also:

    ignorance

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Consequently the percentage of illiteracy is extremely low.

  • Education is somewhat neglected by them, and the percentage of illiteracy among adults is high.

  • Education is somewhat neglected by them, and the percentage of illiteracy among adults is high.

  • Illiteracy is extremely widespread.

  • Of the total population, 10 years of age and over, 30.5% were illiterates in 1 9 00 -49'9% were illiterates in 1880 - and as regards the whites of native birth alone, Georgia ranked ninth in illiteracy, in 1900, among the states and territories of the Union.

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