Crossword-Solution: LITERALISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Literalism | n. | That which accords with the letter; a mode of interpreting literally; adherence to the letter. |
| Literalism | n. | The tendency or disposition to represent objects faithfully, without abstraction, conventionalities, or idealization. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LITERALISM | anagram | SLIMETRAIL |
We have 2 clues for the answer “LITERALISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Fidelity to observable fact. | 1 answer |
| adherence to the explicit substance of an idea or expression | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with LITERALISM (5)
The form of literalism, which showed itself in seeking historical authority for every character or incident which he employed by way of illustration, was especially irritating to him.
Not that he has made a "realistic" translation,--so far we conceive him to be entirely right; but that, by dint of pushing sheer literalism beyond its proper limits, he has too often failed to be truly realistic.
The doctrine of Ideas passed into one of numbers; instead of advancing from the abstract to the concrete, the theories of Plato were taken out of their context, and either asserted or refuted with a provoking literalism; the Socratic or Platonic element in his teaching was absorbed into the Pythagorean or Megarian.
Routine and literalism and a certain dry-throated earnestness and mental thirst, these are the very atmosphere of morbidity.
Elaborate local tomfooleries, such as that by which the Lord of the Manor of Work-sop is alone allowed to do something or other, these probably belong to the decay of the Middle Ages, when that great civilisation died out in grotesque literalism and entangled heraldry.
Quotes with LITERALISM (3)
If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.
It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green.""If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace.
At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity. I have my own differences with both of these savants, but is the Republican Party really prepared to disown such modern intellectuals as it can claim, in favor of a shallow, demagogic and above all sectarian religiosity? Perhaps one could phrase the same question in two further ways. At the last election, the GOP succeeded in i…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1963).