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Definition of literalism in English: literalismnoun ˈlɪt(ə)r(ə)lɪz(ə)m mass noun1The interpretation of words in their literal sense. Example sentencesExamples - What if we risked a dose of literalism and listened again to these sweet words and their implications?
- It has broken free from the literalism of the old black letter lawyers.
- It was after the revivals of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century in Britain and America - revivals that led to such sects as the Methodists - that a more full-blooded literalism became a major part of the religious scene.
- And you don't get points for utilitarianism or literalism.
- The desire to see the real places in which the fictional Pooh, Rat, Mole, Squirrel Nutkin, and Puck wandered could easily descend into a dreadful literalism.
- The Cartesian represents stasis, lack of change, mechanistic logic, scientism, fundamentalism, literalism, ‘absolute truth’: a world with no potential for change.
- Religious revivalism sometimes took the form of extreme literalism, often termed fundamentalism.
- He advocated a strict literalism in which the text became the sole source of legitimate authority, and displayed an extreme hostility to intellectualism, mysticism, and any sectarian divisions within Islam.
- Even the last measure, being ‘close to a powerful spiritual force’ does not necessarily relate to Biblical literalism.
- Apparently this symbolises jobs done by women, but with its leaden literalism it misses the point of memorials and just reminds you of housework and faceless drudgery.
- The interpretation of scripture was polarized between the selective literalism of Calvinism and the more liberal application found within the teachings of Arminius.
- In this context, the relevant principles are that words should be interpreted in the way in which a reasonable commercial person would construe them, and literalism should be resisted in the interpretative process.
- In other words, the trap of language is not language but literalism.
- It is a tacit endorsement of false precision and superficial literalism in psychiatric assessment.
- It is not old-fashioned literalism but sound interpretation to read the Code as meaning what it says.
- Finally, Luther was unwilling to sacrifice political prudence and practicality on the altar of biblical literalism, or to identify Christianity with sectarian withdrawal from the political sphere.
- He encouraged us to escape the prison-gates of literalism and embrace the concept of ‘business common sense’.
Synonyms dogmatism, purism, formalism - 1.1 Literal representation in literature or art.
Example sentencesExamples - Above it - the phone-photo's mate - is a photograph that, with varying degrees of literalism, illustrates the borrowed tale's theme.
- A little naïve in their literalism and earnestness, these works are extremely competent technically.
- Although I feel there needs to be more clarity and in some cases less literalism in approaching such political themes, it is definitely positive for artists to begin moving in this direction.
- While that may be so, strictly speaking, Nijinska sought to escape literalism and instead to express deeper choreographic truths through the movement of her ensembles and the dynamism of their body language.
- Maybe I'm missing the point and insisting on a literalism that isn't there.
- This is literalism well past the point of absurdity - not, let it be said, the poetic absurdity celebrated by the surrealists, but the cynical distortions that inquisitions typically resort to.
Definition of literalism in US English: literalismnoun 1The interpretation of words in their usual or most basic sense. Example sentencesExamples - It has broken free from the literalism of the old black letter lawyers.
- The desire to see the real places in which the fictional Pooh, Rat, Mole, Squirrel Nutkin, and Puck wandered could easily descend into a dreadful literalism.
- In other words, the trap of language is not language but literalism.
- The Cartesian represents stasis, lack of change, mechanistic logic, scientism, fundamentalism, literalism, ‘absolute truth’: a world with no potential for change.
- It was after the revivals of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century in Britain and America - revivals that led to such sects as the Methodists - that a more full-blooded literalism became a major part of the religious scene.
- He encouraged us to escape the prison-gates of literalism and embrace the concept of ‘business common sense’.
- Religious revivalism sometimes took the form of extreme literalism, often termed fundamentalism.
- It is not old-fashioned literalism but sound interpretation to read the Code as meaning what it says.
- In this context, the relevant principles are that words should be interpreted in the way in which a reasonable commercial person would construe them, and literalism should be resisted in the interpretative process.
- The interpretation of scripture was polarized between the selective literalism of Calvinism and the more liberal application found within the teachings of Arminius.
- He advocated a strict literalism in which the text became the sole source of legitimate authority, and displayed an extreme hostility to intellectualism, mysticism, and any sectarian divisions within Islam.
- What if we risked a dose of literalism and listened again to these sweet words and their implications?
- Even the last measure, being ‘close to a powerful spiritual force’ does not necessarily relate to Biblical literalism.
- Finally, Luther was unwilling to sacrifice political prudence and practicality on the altar of biblical literalism, or to identify Christianity with sectarian withdrawal from the political sphere.
- It is a tacit endorsement of false precision and superficial literalism in psychiatric assessment.
- And you don't get points for utilitarianism or literalism.
- Apparently this symbolises jobs done by women, but with its leaden literalism it misses the point of memorials and just reminds you of housework and faceless drudgery.
Synonyms dogmatism, purism, formalism - 1.1 Literal representation in literature or art.
Example sentencesExamples - Above it - the phone-photo's mate - is a photograph that, with varying degrees of literalism, illustrates the borrowed tale's theme.
- A little naïve in their literalism and earnestness, these works are extremely competent technically.
- Maybe I'm missing the point and insisting on a literalism that isn't there.
- Although I feel there needs to be more clarity and in some cases less literalism in approaching such political themes, it is definitely positive for artists to begin moving in this direction.
- This is literalism well past the point of absurdity - not, let it be said, the poetic absurdity celebrated by the surrealists, but the cynical distortions that inquisitions typically resort to.
- While that may be so, strictly speaking, Nijinska sought to escape literalism and instead to express deeper choreographic truths through the movement of her ensembles and the dynamism of their body language.
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