literalism

literal +‎ -ism

literalism (usually uncountable, plural literalisms)

1. Literal interpretation or understanding; adherence to the exact letter or precise significance, as in interpreting or translating.
2. (art) The style of art portraying a subject as literally and accurately as possible.

• literalist

• letter of the law
• textualism
• to the letter

• literalism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• literalism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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