literality

literality [lit-uh-ral-i-tee] ExamplesWord Origin noun, plural lit·er·al·i·ties.

Origin of literality First recorded in 1640–50; literal + -ity Examples from the Web for literality Historical Examples of literality

We would not have him bound by any precedent or any self-imposed law of literality.

W. D. Howells

I say literality,not fidelity, which is by no means the same thing.

Dante Alighieri

When the vision faded he took refuge in symbolism or literality.

Clive Bell

There is no mystery about them; they’ll depose to the literality of the symptoms.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

I shall not attempt to describe it more than I have already done; for the most absorbing wonder of it was its literality.

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