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illiteracy|ɪˈlɪtərəsɪ|
[f. illiterate: see -acy.]
a. The quality or condition of being illiterate; ignorance of letters; unlearnedness, absence of education; esp. inability to read and write. Also used more generally in sense: ignorance, lack of understanding (of any pursuit, activity, etc.). Cf. illiterate a. (n.)
1660S. Fisher Rusticks Alarm Wks. (1679) 222 They have..nourish'd up Illiteracy itself. 1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry (1775) II. 280 To reform the illiteracy of the clergy. 1782W. F. Martyn Geog. Mag. I. 24 The illiteracy of Mahomet made it necessary for him to find some more learned associate. 1880S. C. Buxton Hand-bk. Pol. Quest. 43 That literate voters are induced to plead illiteracy so that the briber may know which way they vote. 1888Pall Mall G. 3 Sept. 7/2 Comparative illiteracy, as tested by marks instead of names in the registers of marriage. 1965W. Lamb Posture & Gesture x. 128 Our ‘illiteracy’ in physical behaviour communications is related to our puppet-like proclivities. 1970Nature 11 Apr. 96/1 The responsibility for carrying out the act was left to local authorities, many of which are apparently more alarmed at being thought to provide ‘sex on the rates’ than by the widespread sexual illiteracy in the British population. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 15 June 660/5 Combating what was not yet called physical illiteracy and teaching girls and women ease and freedom of carriage and movement.
b. An error due to want of learning.
1725Pope Shaks. Pref. (Jod.), The many blunders and illiteracies of the first publishers of his works. |