The Collaborative International Dictionary
Literality \Lit`er*al"i*ty\ (l[i^]t`[~e]r*[a^]l"[i^]*t[y^]), n.
The state or quality of being literal.
--Sir T. Browne.
Wiktionary
n. The condition of being literal
Usage examples of "literality".
It is expounded in all the emphatic details of its gross literality by their authoritative doctors, and is dwelt upon with unwearied reiteration by the Koran.
This seems to be shown alike by the connection of his argument, by the prosaic literality of detail with which he speaks, and by the earnest exhortations he immediately bases on the declaration he has made.
The whole affair is a forcible illustration of the literality with which the popular mind and faith apprehended the notion of the infernal world.
It is also, in all its uncompromising literality, a direct and inevitable part of the system of doctrine which, with insignificant exceptions, professedly prevails throughout Christendom at this hour.
We have now under our hand numerous extracts, from writings published within the last five years by highly influential dignitaries in the different denominations, which for frightfulness of outline and coloring, and for unshrinking assertions of literality, will compare with those already quoted.
Father Passaglia, an eminent Jesuit theologian, in 1856 published in Italy a work on the Literality of Hell Fire and the Eternity of the Punishments of the Damned.
This expresses their pride at once and their simplicity with a childish literality.
Literality makes the church a necessity and explains away our fear of the divine mystical experience.