Illiteracy vs Diversity - What's the difference?
illiteracy | diversity |
(uncountable) The inability to read.
(uncountable) The portion of a population unable to read, generally given as a percentage.
(countable) A word, phrase or grammatical turn thought to be characteristic of an illiterate person.
The quality of being diverse or different; difference or unlikeness.
* c''1386 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), ''(w, The Man of Law's Tale) , 87:
A variety; diverse types or examples.
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As nouns the difference between illiteracy and diversity
is that illiteracy is (uncountable) the inability to read while diversity is the quality of being diverse or different; difference or unlikeness.illiteracy
English
Noun
- Illiteracy is widespread in certain areas of the country.
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(English Citations of "illiteracy")Antonyms
* literacydiversity
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Noun
(diversities)- Ther was swich diversitee Bitwene hir bothe lawes.
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Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […], passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity .}}