From il- + literacy.
- IPA(key): /ɪˈlɪtəɹəsi/, /ɪˈlɪt͡ʃɹəsi/
illiteracy (countable and uncountable, plural illiteracies)
- (uncountable) The inability to read and write.
Illiteracy is widespread in certain areas of the country.
- (uncountable) The portion of a population unable to read and write, generally given as a percentage.
- (countable) A word, phrase, or grammatical turn thought to be characteristic of an illiterate person.
- (uncountable, by extension) Unlearnedness; the state of being ignorant or unlettered.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:illiteracy.
inability to read and write
- Arabic: أُمِّيَّة f (ʔummiyya)
- Bulgarian: неграмотност (bg) f (negramotnost)
- Catalan: analfabetisme (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Eastern Min: 青盲牛 (chăng-màng-ngù)
- Mandarin: 文盲 (zh) (wénmáng)
- Chukchi: айгоԓяткэгыргын (ajgoḷjatkėgyrgyn)
- Czech: negramotnost f
- Danish: analfabetisme c
- Dutch: analfabetisme (nl) n
- Esperanto: analfabeteco
- Faroese: ólesi n
- Finnish: lukutaidottomuus (fi)
- French: analphabétisme (fr) m, illettrisme (fr) m, illittérature (fr) f (rare)
- Galician: analfabetismo (gl) m
- Georgian: წერა-კითხვის უცოდინრობა (c̣era-ḳitxvis ucodinroba)
- German: Analphabetismus (de) n
- Hindi: निरक्षरता (hi) f (nirakṣartā)
- Hungarian: írástudatlanság (hu), analfabetizmus (hu)
- Indonesian: buta aksara (id)
- Irish: neamhlitearthacht f
- Italian: analfabetismo (it) m
- Japanese: 非識字 (ひしきじ, hi-shikiji), 文盲 (ja) (もんもう, mon'mō)
- Kazakh: сауатсыздық (sauatsyzdyq)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: نەخوێندەواری (nexwêndewarî)
- Northern Kurdish: nexwendewarî (ku) f
- Lao: ຄວາມບໍ່ຮູ້ໜັງສື (khuām bǭ hū nang sư̄)
- Latin: analphabētismus m
- Macedonian: неписменост f (nepismenost)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: analfabetisme (no) m
- Nynorsk: analfabetisme m
- Polish: analfabetyzm (pl) m, niepiśmienność f
- Portuguese: analfabetismo m, iliteracia (pt) f
- Russian: негра́мотность (ru) f (negrámotnostʹ), безгра́мотность (ru) f (bezgrámotnostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: неписменост f
- Roman: nepismenost (sh) f
- Spanish: analfabetismo (es) m
- Swedish: analfabetism (sv) c
- Tagalog: dikanulatan, kamaangan
- Telugu: నిరక్షరాస్యత (nirakṣarāsyata)
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