Antonyms for illiteracy
ɪˈlɪt ər ə siil·lit·er·a·cy

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1. illiteracynoun

   Antonyms:
   literacy

2. illiteracynoun

   Illiteracy is widespread in certain areas of the country.

   Antonyms:
   literacy

3. illiteracynoun

   Antonyms:
   literacy

4. illiteracynoun

   Antonyms:
   literacy

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1. illiteracy

   Antonyms:
   breeding, cultivation, culture, development, discipline, education, information, instruction, knowledge, learning, nurture, reading, schooling, study, teaching, training, tuition

   Synonyms:
   ignorance

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1. • Ignorance

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1. illiteracynoun

   ignorance resulting from not reading

   Antonyms:
   literacy

   Synonyms:
   analphabetism

2. illiteracy, analphabetismnoun

   an inability to read

   Antonyms:
   literacy

   Synonyms:
   analphabetism

How to use illiteracy in a sentence?

1. Bishnupada Sethi:

   Odisha has seen calamities like cyclones and floods 77 times over the last 100 years. The fishing community, particularly those living on the coast, bear the burned and are always the worst affected, their miseries multiply due to poor shelter, illiteracy, poverty and, above all, a lack of access to information.

2. Jeb Bush:

   Our problems are still so big in illiteracy that it doesn't matter what your last name is.

3. John Saul:

   Ideology is a form of illiteracy. Those addicted to it are unable to understand anything other than what fits their pattern.

4. Bishnupada Sethi:

   Odisha has seen calamities like cyclones and floods 77 times over the last 100 years. The fishing community, particularly those living on the coast, bear the burnt and are always the worst affected, their miseries multiply due to poor shelter, illiteracy, poverty and, above all, a lack of access to information.

5. John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958):

   People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

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