Usually means: Inability to read and write.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word illiteracy:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. illiteracy: Merriam-Webster
  2. illiteracy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. illiteracy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. illiteracy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. illiteracy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Illiteracy, illiteracy: Wordnik
  7. illiteracy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. illiteracy: Wiktionary
  9. illiteracy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. illiteracy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. illiteracy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Illiteracy, illiteracy: Dictionary.com
  13. illiteracy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Illiteracy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Illiteracy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. illiteracy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. illiteracy: Rhymezone
  18. Illiteracy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. illiteracy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. illiteracy: FreeDictionary.org
  21. illiteracy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. illiteracy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. illiteracy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. illiteracy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. illiteracy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. illiteracy: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. illiteracy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (illiteracy)

noun:  (uncountable) The inability to read and write.
noun:  (uncountable) The portion of a population unable to read and write, generally given as a percentage.
noun:  (countable) A word, phrase, or grammatical turn thought to be characteristic of an illiterate person.
noun:  (uncountable, by extension) Unlearnedness; the state of being ignorant or unlettered.

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