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Literalism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Literal interpretation or understanding; adherence to the exact letter or precise significance, as in interpreting or translating. uncountable, usually

    "Elsewhere, the liturgiologists were said to have "disembowelled the language of the Book of Common Prayer and the Bible" and produced in its place "the bland literalisms of Series 3 and the ASB[.]""

  2. 2
    the doctrine of realistic (literal) portrayal in art or literature wordnet
  3. 3
    The style of art portraying a subject as literally and accurately as possible. uncountable, usually

    "The two main forms of literalism are ergism and orthodoxy."

  4. 4
    a disposition to interpret statements in their literal sense wordnet

Etymology

From literal + -ism.

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