Word Meanings - LITERALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The tendency or disposition to represent objects faithfully, without abstraction, conventionalities, or idealization. (more info) 1. That which accords with the letter; a mode of interpreting literally; adherence to the letter.

Related words: (words related to LITERALISM)

• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• LITERALLY
  1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh. 2. With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally.
• INTERPRETABLE
  Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained.
• LETTERER
  One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• INTERPRETATIVELY
  By interpretation. Ray.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• LETTERURE
  Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
• INTERPRETIVE
  Interpretative.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• REPRESENTATIVELY
  In a representative manner; vicariously.
• ABSTRACTIONAL
  Pertaining to abstraction.
• LETTERN
  See LECTURN
• LETTER
  One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
• LETTERPRESS
  Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations. Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• ABSTRACTIONIST
  An idealist. Emerson.
• REPRESENTATIONARY
  Implying representation; representative.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• IRREPRESENTABLE
  Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
• MISINTERPRETER
  One who interprets erroneously.
• SEA LETTER
  The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo.