uneducation en · NOUN
Etymology
From un- + education.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Lack of education; ignorance.
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: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:But most school magazines I have seen are devastating examples of uneducation.
1964, New Society, volume 4, page 25: