Illiteracy vs Poverty - What's the difference?
illiteracy | poverty |
(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 or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
* {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)
Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.
As nouns the difference between illiteracy and poverty
is that illiteracy is the inability to read while poverty is the quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.illiteracy
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Noun
- Illiteracy is widespread in certain areas of the country.
Quotations
(English Citations of "illiteracy")Antonyms
* literacypoverty
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(en-noun)citation, passage=America’s poverty' line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the '''poverty''' barrier. But '''poverty'''’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own ' poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}