Aliteracy

Alternative forms

• alliteracy

Origin

- + literacy

Full definition of aliteracy

Noun

1. The state of having the ability to read, but lacking interest in doing so.
• 2008, May 11, Larry Doyle, Cracking the Comics Code, Curiously the perfect weapon against rampant aliteracy emerged more than 50 years ago in the form of an utterly addictive synthesis of word and picture: the comic book.

Related terms

• aliterate
• illiteracy