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Illiteracy vs Illiterateness - What's the difference?

illiteracy | illiterateness |

As nouns the difference between illiteracy and illiterateness

is that illiteracy is the inability to read while illiterateness is quality of being illiterate.

illiteracy

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The inability to read.
    • Illiteracy is widespread in certain areas of the country.
  • (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.

    • Quotations

    (English Citations of "illiteracy")

    Antonyms

    * literacy

    Related terms

    * aliteracy * illiterate

    illiterateness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Quality of being illiterate.