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uneducation

uneducation noun: lack of education; ignorance.

Noun

uneducation (uncountable)

  1. Lack of education; ignorance.
    • Nearly six years of age was Manders now, but he still knew very well the gross folly of being much disturbed by such irrational things as death and the hodge-podge of mortal uneducation.1899, Elwyn Alfred Barron, Manders: A Tale of Paris, page 8
    • The sight of a sheepskin coat from Zakopane led me to a discussion of Polish peasant industries, and the high percentage of artistic achievement in spite of wretched poverty and uneducation.1911, Alfred Richard Orage, Arthur Moore, The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Art

Origin of uneducation

From un- + education.

Questions about uneducation

What does uneducation mean?
Uneducation means lack of education; ignorance.
What part of speech is uneducation?
Uneducation is a noun.

Words near uneducation in the dictionary

  1. uneducatedly
  2. uneducatedness
  3. uneducateds
  4. uneducates
  5. uneducating
  6. uneducation
  7. uneducative
  8. uneduced
  9. UNEF
  10. uneffaceable
  11. uneffaceably

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