literalism

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Adherence to the explicit sense of a given text or doctrine.

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Literal portrayal; realism.

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Literal interpretation or understanding; adherence to the exact letter or precise significance, as in interpreting or translating.

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In art, exact rendering or representation; unimaginative exactness.

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That which accords with the letter; a mode of interpreting literally; adherence to the letter.

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The tendency or disposition to represent objects faithfully, without abstraction, conventionalities, or idealization.

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Literal interpretation or understanding; adherence to the exact letter or precise significance, as in interpreting or translating.

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The style of art portraying a subject as literally and accurately as possible.

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the doctrine of realistic (literal) portrayal in art or literature

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a disposition to interpret statements in their literal sense