Illiteracy

Etymology
From the Latin litteratus

Noun

 * 1)  The inability to read.
 * Illiteracy is widespread in certain areas of the country.
 * 1)  The portion of a population unable to read, generally given as a percentage.
 * 2)  A word, phrase, or grammatical turn thought to be characteristic of an illiterate person.

Quotations

 * portion of a population unable to read
 * 1920, In 1916 ten provinces had an illiteracy of over 70 per cent, and but five had less than 40 per cent. &mdash; Ellwood Patterson Cubberley, The History of education: Educational Practice and Progress Considered as a Phase of the Development and Spread of Western Civilization Houghton Mifflin p. 715
 * 1951, No Turkish reformation could be successful that tolerated an illiteracy of 85 per cent among its people. &mdash; Victor Lincoln Albjerg, Esther Marguerite Hall Albjerg, Merguerite Hall Albjerg, Europe from 1914 to the Present McGraw-Hill p. 449
 * 1982, In comparison, ten years before that, there was still an illiteracy of 82.1% among women, and 55.2% among men (Statistical Yearbook 1974). &mdash; Ellen T. Ismail, Social Environment and Daily Routine of Sudanese Women, ISBN 3496005262, p. 59
 * 1999, On the other hand, the political structure, characterized by an ineffective administration, a corrupt electoral system, an illiteracy of some 75 percent, and an antiquated educational system, was unable to develop in Spain a capitalist democracy of the level of the rest of Europe. &mdash; David T. Gies, The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture ISBN 0521574293 p. 21


 * word, phrase, or grammatical turn of an illiterate person
 * 1975, "Widow woman" is an illiteracy. &mdash; Harry Shaw, Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions ISBN 0070564892 p. 257
 * 1983, The phrase could of is an illiteracy, since of is not a verb. &mdash; Morton S. Freeman, A Treasury for Word Lovers ISBN 0894950274 p. 53
 * 1997, Friendly as an adverb (‘He talked friendly to me') is an illiteracy. &mdash; Eric Partridge, Usage and Abusage: a guide to good English : abusus non tollit usum ISBN 0393037614 p. 121

Translations

 * Catalan: analfabetisme
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 * Russian: неграмотность
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Antonyms

 * literacy

Related terms

 * illiterate

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