Definitions for literality

literality lit·er·al·i·ty

Spelling: [lit-uh-ral-i-tee]
IPA: /ˌlɪt əˈræl ɪ ti/

Literality is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 334 anagrams from letters in literality (aeiillrtty).

Definitions for literality

noun

  1. the quality or state of being literal; literalness.
  2. a literal interpretation.

Origin of literality

First recorded in 1640-50; literal + -ity

Examples for literality

I shall not attempt to describe it more than I have already done; for the most absorbing wonder of it was its literality.

We would not have him bound by any precedent or any self-imposed law of literality.

I shall not attempt to describe it more than I have already done, for the most absorbing wonder of it was its literality.

When the vision faded he took refuge in symbolism or literality.

I say literality,not fidelity, which is by no means the same thing.

Poetry not being an exact science, literality of rendering is altogether secondary to this chief law.

There they are, unexaggerated, in their literality, precisely as I conceived them at the time they happened.

There is no mystery about them; they'll depose to the literality of the symptoms.

He is not to be tied down to literality in his statement of the general working of things.

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