Aliterate vs Aliteracy - What's the difference?
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Disinclined to read though not illiterate, able to read but reluctant or unlikely to read.
Someone who is able to read but disinclined to do so.
The state of having the ability to read, but lacking interest in doing so.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 11, author=Larry Doyle, title=Cracking the Comics Code, work=New York Times
, passage=Curiously the perfect weapon against rampant aliteracy emerged more than 50 years ago in the form of an utterly addictive synthesis of word and picture: the comic book. }}
Aliterate is a related term of aliteracy.
As nouns the difference between aliterate and aliteracy
is that aliterate is someone who is able to read but disinclined to do so while aliteracy is the state of having the ability to read, but lacking interest in doing so.As an adjective aliterate
is disinclined to read though not illiterate, able to read but reluctant or unlikely to read.aliterate
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Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- Mark Twain famously said "The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who can't read" or more succinctly: the aliterate has little advantage over the illiterate.
Anagrams
*aliteracy
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(wikipedia aliteracy)Alternative forms
* alliteracyNoun
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