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literaliser

literaliser is the alternative form of literalizer.

Meaning of literalizer

Noun

literalizer (plural literalizers)

  1. A literalist (someone who takes something literally)
  2. A literalist (someone who translates literally)

Forms of literaliser

pluralliteralisers

Origin of literaliser

From literalise + -er.

Questions about literaliser

What is literaliser the alternative form of?
Literaliser is the alternative form of literalizer.

Words near literaliser in the dictionary

  1. literal-minded
  2. literalisation
  3. literalisations
  4. literalise
  5. literalised
  6. literaliser
  7. literalisers
  8. literalises
  9. literalising
  10. literalism
  11. literalisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: literaliser (page history and authors); literalizer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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