aliteracy

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Etymology

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a- +‎ literacy

Noun

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aliteracy (uncountable)

  1. The state of having the ability to read, but lacking interest in doing so.
    • 2008 May 11, Larry Doyle, “Cracking the Comics Code”, in New York Times[1]:
      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.
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