Synonyms for illiteracy
ɪˈlɪt ər ə siil·lit·er·a·cy

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. illiteracynoun

   Antonyms:
   literacy

2. illiteracynoun

   Illiteracy is widespread in certain areas of the country.

   Antonyms:
   literacy

3. illiteracynoun

   Antonyms:
   literacy

4. illiteracynoun

   Antonyms:
   literacy

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. illiteracy

   Synonyms:
   ignorance

   Antonyms:
   breeding, cultivation, culture, development, discipline, education, information, instruction, knowledge, learning, nurture, reading, schooling, study, teaching, training, tuition

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. illiteracynoun

   ignorance resulting from not reading

   Synonyms:
   analphabetism

   Antonyms:
   literacy

2. illiteracy, analphabetismnoun

   an inability to read

   Synonyms:
   analphabetism

   Antonyms:
   literacy

Matched Categories

1. • Ignorance

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. illiteracynoun

   Synonyms:
   ignorance, want of learning, want of literary culture

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "illiteracy":

   illiterate, literacy

How to pronounce illiteracy?

How to say illiteracy in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use illiteracy in a sentence?

1. Bishnupada Sethi:

   Odisha has seen calamities like cyclones and floods 77 times over the last 100 years. The fishing community, particularly those living on the coast, bear the burnt and are always the worst affected, their miseries multiply due to poor shelter, illiteracy, poverty and, above all, a lack of access to information.

2. Jeb Bush:

   Our problems are still so big in illiteracy that it doesn't matter what your last name is.

3. John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958):

   People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

4. John Saul:

   Ideology is a form of illiteracy. Those addicted to it are unable to understand anything other than what fits their pattern.

5. Bishnupada Sethi:

   Odisha has seen calamities like cyclones and floods 77 times over the last 100 years. The fishing community, particularly those living on the coast, bear the burned and are always the worst affected, their miseries multiply due to poor shelter, illiteracy, poverty and, above all, a lack of access to information.