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Literalness

Literalness \Lit"er*al*ness\, n. The quality or state of being literal; literal import.

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literalness

n. The property of being literal.

WordNet
literalness

n. adhereing to the concrete construal of something

Usage examples of "literalness".

Under the circumstances, that we should now possess the very equivalents of his words with strict literalness, and conveying his very intentions perfectly translated from the Aramaan into the Greek tongue, would imply the most sustained and amazing of all miracles.

Clearly, in the programmatic literalness of its kind, the demon from the web had determined that having early seen them, it must early kill them as well.

Despite the literalness of Tantric texts and the explicitness of paintings and sculpture their symbolic interpretation prevailed in Tibet and it would be a serious misunderstanding to suppose otherwise.