aliteracy
nounEtymology From a- + literacy.
1
The state of having the ability to read, but lacking interest in doing so.
- 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.2008 May 11, Larry Doyle, “Cracking the Comics Code”, in New York Times:
- Related terms
- aliterate, illiteracy