innumeracy

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  1. illiteracy
  2. ignorance
  3. idiocy
Noun
  • There’s no danger of spontaneous mass illiteracy, but the complex cognitive skills that reading fosters start to degrade.
    — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • And now creative events like the various fair demonstrations and exhibits bring the problem of illiteracy into public spaces and help remove the stigma surrounding it.
    — Catharine Kaufman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2026
Definition of illiteracy
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  • Macca shot back as Poehler feigned ignorance and let out a laugh.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2026
  • This kind of ignorance also protected us, to a certain extent.
    — Baptiste Mandrillon, Time, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of ignorance
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  • There's always been an element of complete idiocy in the culture.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Forty years on, Spy magazine is best remembered, not unjustly, as the first entity to call out Trump for his tackiness, villainy, and arrant idiocy.
    — David Kamp, Air Mail, 3 Oct. 2026
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