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Definitions: Literalism |
LiteralismNoun1. The doctrine of realistic (literal) portrayal in art or literature. 2. A disposition to interpret statements in their literal sense. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "literalism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references) |
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| "Literalism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Literalism" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "literalism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kuptim i drejtpërdrejtë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | точно възпроизвеждане, буквоядство (verbalism), прекалена точност, прекален реализъм, педантизъм (pedantry, pragmatism, precisianism, priggery, punctilio, verbalism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Buchstabenglaube. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κυριολεξία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | betű szerinti vétele vminek, betű szerinti magyarázat, betű szerinti fordítás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 写実主義 (realism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゃじつしゅぎ (realism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iteralismlay literalismo, prosaico (matter of fact, pedestrian, prosaic, prosy, unimaginative, workaday), exatidão (accuracy, closeness, exactitude, exactness, faithless, nearness, nicety, particularity, precision, propriety, punctuality), caráter prático. (various references) interpretare literalã. (various references) точность изображения, буквализм. (various references) bukvalno tumačenje. (various references) carácter literal. (various references) การยึดถือตามตัวอักษร. (various references) gerçekçilik (literalness, realism), aslına uygunluk (literalness). (various references) буквалізм. (various references) sự giải thích theo nghĩa đen sự dịch từng ch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "literalism": literalisms. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "literalism": triliteralism. (additional references) | |
Words containing "literalism": triliteralisms. (additional references) | |
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"Literalism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lateralis, lateralism, literalise. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "literalism" (pronounced 'Lit"er*al*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-l-m-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: milliares, ramillies. | |
-2 letters: airtimes, lamister, limiters, literals, marliest, marlites, milliare, milliers, misalter, mistrial, ramilies, ramillie, seriatim, stillier, talliers, tallisim, tramells. | |
-3 letters: airiest, airtime, amities, armlets, elitism, illites, imarets, laities, lamster, limiest, limiter, limites, literal, maestri, mailers, mallets, maltier, marlite, millers, millets, millier, milreis, milters, miltier, miriest, misrate, mistier, mistral, rallies, ramilie, ramtils, realism. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-l-l-m-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: literalisms. | |
+2 letters: bilateralism, meristically. | |
+3 letters: alkalimetries, bilateralisms, isometrically, magisterially, millilamberts, ministerially, triliteralism. | |
+4 letters: antiliberalism, intermetallics, lognormalities, triliteralisms. | |
+5 letters: anticlericalism, antiliberalisms, martensitically, multilateralism, multilateralist, multipolarities, postmillenarian, semicrystalline, transilluminate, ultraliberalism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 74 65 72 61 6C 69 73 6D |
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