"His literalism is insane." "He seems mentally stable to me."
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Literalism
Synonyms for "literalism" (28 found)
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6 translations across 5 languages.
Dutch
1 entries- letterlijkheid noun (literal interpretation or understanding; adherence to the exact letter or precise significance, as in interpreting or translating)
Finnish
2 entries- kirjaimellinen tulkinta noun (literal interpretation or understanding; adherence to the exact letter or precise significance, as in interpreting or translating)
- literalismi noun (literal interpretation or understanding; adherence to the exact letter or precise significance, as in interpreting or translating)
French
1 entries- littéralisme noun (literal interpretation or understanding; adherence to the exact letter or precise significance, as in interpreting or translating)
Polish
1 entries- dosłowność noun (literal interpretation or understanding; adherence to the exact letter or precise significance, as in interpreting or translating)
Russian
1 entries- буквали́зм noun (literal interpretation or understanding; adherence to the exact letter or precise significance, as in interpreting or translating)
Sample sentences
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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[.]"
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Furthermore, what would otherwise be good points about the sort of selective literalism that renders homosexuality an unpardonable sin but shrugs off Sarah Palin’s biblically forbidden pearl earrings are lost in Eichenwald’s assumption that evangelicals make these decisions “with less care than they exercise in selecting side orders for lunch.”
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The two main forms of literalism are ergism and orthodoxy.
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