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  1. 1. Illiteracy [n.] - The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; want of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census. - An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder.

  2. ILLITERATE translate: अनपढ़, निरक्षर, (किसी विषय-विशेष में) अनभिज्ञ, निरक्षर. Learn more in the Cambridge English-Hindi Dictionary.

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    • Illiteracy and The Internet
    • Literacy as A Continuum of Skills

    "The subculture of illiteracy is larger than anyone on the outside would ever believe. The National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) conducted a study of illiteracy among adults in the United States in 2003, the results of which were released in December 2005. NAAL found that 43 percent of the total population aged 16 and older, or some 93 milli...

    "As teenagers’ scores on standardized reading tests have declined or stagnated, some argue that the hours spent prowling the Internet are the enemy of reading, diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans and destroying a precious common culture that exists only through the reading of books." "But others say the Internet has created a new kind of...

    "Illiteracy has fallen from one in five people to almost nonexistent over a century and a bit. But 'illiteracy' clearly isn’t a single on-or-off switch. It’s not just 'you can read and write or you can’t.' Literacy is a continuum of skills. Basic education now reaches virtually all Americans. But many among the poorest have the weakest skills in fo...

    • Richard Nordquist
  3. Literacy is the ability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of "literacy" as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period before 1950, when literacy was understood solely as alphabetical literacy ; and the period after 1950, when literacy slowly began to be considered as a wider concept and process, including the ...

  4. Illiteracy meaning in Hindi (हिन्दी मे मीनिंग ) is निरक्षरता.English definition of Illiteracy : ignorance resulting from not reading. Illiteracy meaning in Hindi : Get meaning and translation of Illiteracy in Hindi language with grammar,antonyms,synonyms and sentence usages by ShabdKhoj. Know answer ...

  5. Hindi translation of 'illiterate' illiterate. /ɪˈlɪtərət इˈलिटरअट्/ adjective. Someone who is illiterate cannot read or write. निरक्षर अशिक्षित अनपढ़ अनभिज्ञ functionally/practically illiterate an illiterate peasant/worker/adult/population. OPPOSITES. literate. Copyright © 2014 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.

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  7. 1. : the quality or state of being illiterate. especially : inability to read or write. 2. : a mistake or crudity (as in speaking) typical of one who is illiterate. Synonyms. ignorance. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of illiteracy in a Sentence.

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