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Definition of Literalness
1. Noun. Adhereing to the concrete construal of something.
Definition of Literalness
1. n. The quality or state of being literal; literal import.
Definition of Literalness
1. Noun. The property of being literal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Literalness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Literalness
Literary usage of Literalness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Atonement by Borden Parker Bowne (1900)
"guage with mechanical literalness. We have similar absurdity or impossibility
when we take with rigid literalness the Scripture language concerning the ..."
2. The Meaning of God in Human Experience: A Philosophic Study of Religion by William Ernest Hocking (1912)
"And herein lies that literalness of the God-idea which we have thought ...
For Nature is the home of literalness. To be literal means to be real in the same ..."
3. Out-doors at Idlewild; Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1855)
"... the-Job—English literalness and Yankee "Gumption." May 28, 1853. IN the making
of a shelf-road around one of the precipices of Idlewild (something like ..."
4. The Art of Acting and Public Reading: Dramatic Interpretation by Rollo Anson Tallcott (1922)
"In personating, however, we may use literalness in all action. In bearing we pay
especial attention to any eccentricity of carriage including the gait, ..."
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