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literature
  1. The body of all written works.
  2. The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
  3. All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
  4. Written fiction of a high standard.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Studying classic literature from the Western canon affords students the opportunity to explore language quite different from their own.”
      “I was not able to find any literature on the effects of deer browsing on prairie plants.”
      “They will be handing out literature and advice to residents on how best to keep the community clean.”
literalist
  1. A person who adheres to the literal representation of a statement or law.
  2. A person who translates text literally.
  3. (art) One who works in the style of literalism.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Jonson, influenced as ever by the Horatian paradigms, adopts and adapts these literalist interpretations of the myth to his own dramatic ends.”
      “Several embarrassing montages seem directed by the domineering pop soundtrack due to their literalist take on the lyrics.”
      “There were new evangelical currents afloat, especially the tracts the Fundamentals that gave the literalist movement its name.”
literator
  1. A literary person, a man of letters.
  2. One who writes professionally.
  3. A learned person.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The school of the literatus was much better than that of the literator, but it reached only a limited number of the Roman youth.”
      “The author acknowledges the valuable feedback from reviewers of this article as well as from the Editor of Literator.”
      “This project was invited to form part of the Transgressions and boundaries of the page project of 2009-2011 to which this edition of Literator is devoted.”
literal
literalism
  1. Literal interpretation or understanding; adherence to the exact letter or precise significance, as in interpreting or translating.
  2. (art) The style of art portraying a subject as literally and accurately as possible.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “What if we risked a dose of literalism and listened again to these sweet words and their implications?”
      “It is a tacit endorsement of false precision and superficial literalism in psychiatric assessment.”
      “It is not old-fashioned literalism but sound interpretation to read the Code as meaning what it says.”
literacy
  1. The ability to read and write.
  2. Understanding of something (ex. computer literacy).
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Like his level of literacy, the scope of his numeracy was restricted.”
      “Now, as an adult, she's making strides to grow in her financial literacy.”
      “Though almost a quarter of children still leave school unable to read or write properly, the drive to improve literacy has pushed up standards.”
literati
  1. Well-educated, literary people; intellectuals who are interested in literature
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Once a pure and sincere member of the literati, he is now a superb wheeler-dealer in Shanghai's real estate market.”
      “The apparent juxtaposition of literati and merchant culture at opposite ends of the east wall is misleading.”
      “The visiting literati included the poet laureate Ted Hughes and his wife, Sylvia Plath.”
literariness
  1. The property of being literary, either being a work of literature or knowledgable of literature.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Let me now assuage the fear of theory by pointing out that there are theories which actually threaten or ignore the literariness of literature.”
      “The counterpart of a culture's national individuality in its literature is originality, the definitive marker of literariness.”
      “Price is particularly good when the flat cynicism of his speakers works against the slight floweriness or literariness of their language.”
literarist
  1. An academic involved in teaching literature rather than composition.
literatus
  1. (plural) A learned person; one acquainted with literature.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The school of the literatus was much better than that of the literator, but it reached only a limited number of the Roman youth.”
      “Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be maimed.”
      “The literatus who realized this had his own message in mind.”
literaryism
literaturology
  1. (uncommon) The scholarly or scientific study of literature.
literate
  1. A person who is able to read and write
literatesqueness
  1. The quality of being literatesque.
literalization
  1. The act or process of literalizing.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The latter, which strives toward a new literalization, is often cleverly deployed by the advertising industry.”
      “His infantile voice, androgynous manner, ever-whitening skin, and de-Africanized features and hair became a grotesque literalization of the crossover aesthetic.”
      “This pallid story draws its ferocious tone less from the fury of willful people than from the literalization of a flip metaphor: the idea that the movie industry is incestuous.”
literaliser
  1. Alternative form of literalizer
literatuer
  1. Obsolete form of literature.
literateness
literality
  1. The condition of being literal
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The fundamental theorem of calculus becomes almost obvious once the nonstandard terminology is invoked and interpreted in its full literality.”
      “In so doing, he invents another type of representation which robs, disembodies, and finally perhaps brings the body back to its literality.”
      “I shall not attempt to describe it more than I have already done, for the most absorbing wonder of it was its literality.”
literalness
  1. The property of being literal.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “But it should only be attempted if the critic first honors the poem's literalness, because the poem's cold power is in its literalness.”
      “It's literalness is so easily consumed that there is no choice but for the work to be ephemeral and meaningless.”
      “The drawings have a Photo-Realist literalness, and a dense, satiny gloss accenting edges and shadows in a masterful counterpoint of tonal values.”
literato
literalizer
literalizations
  1. plural of literalization
literalisers
  1. plural of literaliser
literaryisms
  1. plural of literaryism
literalizers
  1. plural of literalizer
literalnesses
literalisms
literalists
  1. plural of literalist
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Do photographs require us to be absolute literalists when it comes to interpretation of an event?”
      “The anti-Darwin movement, at least in its popular form, began in the primitive whoops and hollers of young-earthers and seven-day literalists.”
      “We're not didactic, and we're not literalists, and we don't take a particular stance that aligns with any party.”
literatuers
  1. plural of literatuer
literatures
  1. plural of literature
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The seminar's topic was Renaissance utopian literatures, focusing on More's Utopia.”
      “Now I know that some will say it is not possible to study so many ethnic literatures and cultures.”
      “Seed volumes were calculated as an ellipsoid of revolution from the nut length and width data obtained from literatures on dipterocarps.”
literarists
  1. plural of literarist
literalities
literators
literates
  1. plural of literate
  2. Examples:
    1. “He says with a hint of anguish that more than literates, it is the so-called illiterates who are forthright and capable of accepting challenges.”
      “If we turn to the faithful OED, the word is said to date back to the eighteenth century and was used by the great literates of Swift and Dickens.”
      “These were programmes where literates, semi-literates and illiterates were to participate.”
literacies
  1. plural of literacy
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “One important form of editorial comment concerns suggesting and promoting new forms of hypermedia literacies.”
      “Rather there are gradations and types of literacies, with a range of benefits closely related to the specific functions of literacy practices.”
      “On the increasingly rewarding practical experiences of networking, literacy is challenged by transitory, partial literacies.”
literals
  1. plural of literal
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Extensive mistakes may hardly count, but literals can be crucial in a conflicted society which fetishes minor differences.”
      “In the end of course, there I was giving out about spelling and the piece itself was full of literals.”
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