Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Illiteracy; ignorance even of the alphabet.
- noun In phonetics, a system of representing the articulations of speech-sounds by means of analphabetic symbols, proposed by Professor I. Otto Jespersen of Copenhagen in 1889. See
analphabetic .
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- noun
Illiteracy , the inability to read and write.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an inability to read
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This demands a solution to the frightening statistics on infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education, analphabetism, wages insufficient to sustain life.
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Today the average lifespan in the third world is 67, infant mortality is way down, starvation relatively less wide spread, and analphabetism is no longer the norm.
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