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literalism

noun

Etymology

From literal + -ism.

  1. derived from littera
  2. derived from litteralis
  3. derived from literal
  4. inherited from literal
  5. formed as literalism — “literal + -ism”

Definitions

  1. Literal interpretation or understanding

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

    • 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. The style of art portraying a subject as literally and accurately as possible.

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

The neighborhood

Derived

antiliteralism

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for literalism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA