Hypertext Webster Gateway: "illiteracy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Illiteracy \Il*lit"er*a*cy\, n.; pl. {Illiteracies}. [From
{Illiterate}.]
1. The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; want of
learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability
to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last
census.
2. An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder.
The many blunders and illiteracies of the first
publishers of his [Shakespeare's] works. --Pope.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
illiteracy
n 1: ignorance resulting from not reading
2: an inability to read [ant: {literacy}]
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