Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being literal; literalness; verbal or literal meaning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being literal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being
literal
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Examples
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And the literality is so funny, and wise in its way too.
Lit Crit; ur doin it wrong « Tales from the Reading Room 2009
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So why the insistence on literality in one instance but the willingness to interpret in the other?
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So why the insistence on literality in one instance but the willingness to interpret in the other?
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So why the insistence on literality in one instance but the willingness to interpret in the other?
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A President exists in the straitjacket of literality.
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Edit eddie, I am not trying to persuade you, or me, of anything, and certainly not of the literality of Genesis.
When anti-reason inspires terrorism - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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This takes the title to a new literalness, literality?
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I believe that these metaphorical meanings are the real point of the stories, and that those who insist on literality cripple their true meaning.
When anti-reason inspires terrorism - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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A President exists in the straitjacket of literality.
Dear red staters the GOP is playing blood-stained politics with our military. 2008
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I'm no scholar, but when you ask them what they think about how the Book of Job is translated in the AngloSaxon version, versus the septuagint, and point out that if all these texts were considered canonical when they're contradictory then there's a problem with literality... they back of slowly as you chase them asking their thoughts on the dead sea scrolls :
Disability and Freethinking Kay Olson 2008
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