Synonyms for illiterateness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ih-lit-er-it |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈlɪt ər ɪt |
Top 10 synonyms for illiterateness
- fog
- half-knowledge
- illiteracy
- incapacity
- incomprehension
- innocence
- inscience
- insensitivity
- lack of education
- mental incapacity
- naiveté
- nescience
- oblivion
- obtuseness
- philistinism
- rawness
- sciolism
- shallowness
- simplicity
- unawareness
- unconsciousness
- uncouthness
- unenlightenment
- unfamiliarity
- unscholarliness
- vagueness
Définition of illiterateness
Origin :- early 15c., "uneducated, unable to read (originally of Latin)," from Latin illiteratus "unlearned, unlettered, ignorant; without culture, inelegant," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + literatus, literally "furnished with letters" (see literate). As a noun meaning "illiterate person" from 1620s. Hence, illiterati (1788).
- noun ignorance
- It was addressed to her son, and was a curious specimen of illiterateness.
- Extract from : « Ormond, Volume I (of 3) » by Charles Brockden Brown
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