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literalism
[lit-er-uh-liz-uhm]
noun
adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense, as in translation or interpretation.
to interpret the law with uncompromising literalism.
a peculiarity of expression resulting from this.
The work is studded with these obtuse literalisms.
exact representation or portrayal, without idealization, as in art or literature.
a literalism more appropriate to journalism than to the novel.
literalism
/ ˈɪəəˌɪə /
noun
the disposition to take words and statements in their literal sense
literal or realistic portrayal in art or literature
Other Word Forms
- literalist noun
- literalistic adjective
- literalistically adverb
- ˌٱˈپ adjective
- ˌٱˈپally adverb
- ˈٱ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of literalism1
Example Sentences
This isn’t the kind of puzzle thriller in which all the elements click into place with a thudding literalism that compliments an attentive eye.
Together, the films also prove that literalism isn’t always required in stories that impart messy truths about humanity.
The oxymoronic “intelligent design” movement, a repackaging of creationism, attempted to position biblical literalism as equivalent to the copiously evidenced theory of evolution, insisting schools “teach the controversy.”
Yet he passionately argued against biblical literalism and other views such as intelligent design, which professes that the natural world is too complex to have developed without the guiding hand of a supreme being.
Meanwhile, Wilde’s direction manages to be simultaneously overheated and pedestrian, resorting to blunt-force literalism in moments that call for Hitchcockian finesse.
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