What's the difference between illiteracy and illiterature?
Illiteracy
Definition:
(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.
(n.) An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Existing services and underutilized because of illiteracy, the most important factor, cultural practices, religious practices, and the subordinate status of women.
(2) Whenever I hear about David Blunkett's tests for new immigrants, I think of my mother's initial impressions and don't know whether to laugh or cry: laugh because of the patent folly of his attempts to fix what is fluid and to codify what is contested in British identity; or cry at the racism that has inspired it, the nationalism that informs it, and the historical, political and cultural illiteracy that infects every part of it.
(3) Meanwhile, millions of Ugandans suffer from malnutrition, slum housing, illiteracy, preventable diseases and a lack of clean drinking water.
(4) Illiteracy will cost global economy $1.2tn in 2015 Read more Funding is a huge issue.
(5) The author has analysed 339 patients with extensive burns admitted to a teaching hospital and found them to be most common in poor socioeconomic groups with low incomes, poor housing and illiteracy.
(6) A regression analysis demonstrated that illiteracy of the mother was most highly correlated with the infant mortality rate, followed closely by rural residence.
(7) Every now and again there was a fashion for saying that Enid Blyton or RL Stine was a bad author or that comics fostered illiteracy.
(8) The late dyslexia amongst youth and the illiteracy of adults increases more and more.
(9) @SciDevNet_SA Don't be discouraged by illiteracy: Curiously, it is illiterate Indians who are making the best use of the digital technology on mobile phones equipped with cameras.
(10) Furthermore, the sickest or most vulnerable members of a clinical population may be least able to provide valid health status information because of dementia, frailty, blindness, illiteracy, or inability to speak English.
(11) Finally there are the high levels of illiteracy, which make a famous name a determining factor for tens of millions of voters.
(12) The goal was the complete removal of adult illiteracy in the intervention area within three years.
(13) Significant second order interaction effects emerged in a big number of cases denoting that, under certain conditions relating to literacy-illiteracy and urbanism-ruralism, the superiority of controls over cannabis users became much more impressive.
(14) Risk factors for high blood pressure were: age, body mass index, illiteracy and factors related to occupation, such as occupational category and working conditions (e.g.
(15) Take Facebook’s response to the astonishing buck-passing of the UK government, which exploited the same tech illiteracy – much of it in the media this time, to accuse Facebook of having blood on its hands over the killing of soldier Lee Rigby.
(16) Not only did she drop out but so did her siblings, consigning a generation of the family to a vicious cycle of illiteracy and poverty.
(17) "There is no illiteracy, even among people aged 70 and over," says Takao Suzuki, vice-director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology.
(18) Maternal illiteracy was 73% for the sample, 92% for the overall district (ages 35-59).
(19) Results of the bacteriological examination revealed a positive correlation between those having a vaginal discharge and pH above 5, mixed infection, and illiteracy.
(20) Or has he become ashamed of its psychological illiteracy?