Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

maleducation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: male-d-u-ca-tion
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Education that is faulty or incomplete.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Far more important than correcting faulty education resulting from the activities of the nonschool educative agencies is preventing, where possible, such maleducation from taking place."
"Education is a continuous process which, unless maintained, soon lapses into the state of maleducation. There are many people who have had the benefit of university education, who are today living specimens of maleducation because they have ceased to educate themselves."
"Not only is Afrocentrism spawning grotesque maleducation, multiculturalism is exacerbating racial hostilities, undoing earlier racial progress."

Etymology

From mal- + education.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: mal

Usage

Uncountable

Frequently Paired Words

education maleducative miseducation

Questions

What does maleducation mean?: Education that is faulty or incomplete.
Where does maleducation come from?: From mal- + education.

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