Definitions for literalism

literalism lit·er·al·ism

Spelling: [lit-er-uh-liz-uh m]
IPA: /ˈlɪt ər əˌlɪz əm/

Literalism is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 804 anagrams from letters in literalism (aeiillmrst).

Definitions for literalism

noun

  1. adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense, as in translation or interpretation:
  2. a peculiarity of expression resulting from this:
  3. exact representation or portrayal, without idealization, as in art or literature:

Origin of literalism

First recorded in 1635-45; literal + -ism

Examples for literalism

If there is a locating of everything, literalism is substituted for imaginative suggestiveness.

The literalism of the Panorama has lately been invaded by an effort toward the Ideal.

This was so deep a conviction of her soul, that she had little patience with literalism.

It is literalism, however, which bears the brunt of his attack.

Russian literalism, like many early Christian heresies, interprets the prophets and the Apocalypse in a purely material sense.

They are immobilised by the dead weight of Biblical literalism.

Things are so bad that we do not even realize that literalism itself had a different meaning in past epochs.

Hero-worship is too often idolatry, and for my part the literalism of it is only "spiritualism" trying to be respectable.

literalism and fanaticism are not vices confined to any one sect.

Yet this again is nothing but Roman literalism, the Roman way of taking every thing literally.

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