literalization
literalization noun: the act or process of literalizing.
Noun
literalization (countable and uncountable, plural literalizations)
- The act or process of literalizing.
- One suspects, however, that it was accidental here, or unconscious, just as it’s likely that Hinton’s echo of the testimonial frame Salinger used in “The Catcher in the Rye” (“If you really want to hear about it”) wasn’t consciously intended, nor was Hinton’s literalization of Holden’s “If a body...2007 September 23, Dale Peck, “‘The Outsiders’: 40 Years Later”, in New York Times
Forms of literalization
| plural | literalizations |
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Origin of literalization
From literal + -ization.
Questions about literalization
- What does literalization mean?
- Literalization means the act or process of literalizing.
- What part of speech is literalization?
- Literalization is a noun.
- What is the plural of literalization?
- The plural of literalization is literalizations.
Words near literalization in the dictionary
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