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LITERALNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does literalness mean?
• LITERALNESS (noun)
The noun LITERALNESS has 1 sense:
1. adhereing to the concrete construal of something
Familiarity information: LITERALNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Adhereing to the concrete construal of something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("literalness" is a kind of...):
concreteness (the quality of being concrete (not abstract))
Derivation:
literal (without interpretation or embellishment)
literal (limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text)
literal (being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something)
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