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literalism

/ˈlɪtərəlɪzəm/noun

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    [U]

    the practice of understanding words, especially in a religious or legal text, in their most basic and exact meaning, without considering metaphor or wider purpose

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    • The court rejected a narrow literalism in interpreting the law.
    • religious literalism
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literal adjectiveliteralist noun