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PRONUNCIATION OF LITERALITY

literality  [ˌlɪtəˈrælɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LITERALITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Literality is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LITERALITY


amorality
ˌeɪməˈrælɪtɪ
balmorality
ˌbælməˈrælɪtɪ
chirality
kaɪˈrælɪtɪ
collaterality
kəlætəˈrælɪtɪ
corporality
ˌkɔːpəˈrælɪtɪ
generality
ˌdʒɛnəˈrælɪtɪ
gutturality
ˌɡʌtəˈrælɪtɪ
immorality
ˌɪməˈrælɪtɪ
laterality
ˌlætəˈrælɪtɪ
liberality
ˌlɪbəˈrælɪtɪ
literalness
ˌlɪtəˈrælɪtɪ
morality
məˈrælɪtɪ
orality
ɔːˈrælɪtɪ
peripherality
pəˌrɪfəˈrælɪtɪ
plurality
plʊəˈrælɪtɪ
preternaturality
ˌpriːtəˌnætʃəˈrælɪtɪ
rurality
rʊəˈrælɪtɪ
spirality
spaɪəˈrælɪtɪ
temporality
ˌtɛmpəˈrælɪtɪ
unmorality
ˌʌnməˈrælɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LITERALITY

literal
literal error
literal-minded
literal-mindedness
literalisation
literaliser
literalism
literalist
literalistic
literalistically
literalization
literalize
literalizer
literally
literalness
literarily
literariness
literary
literary agency
literary agent

WORDS THAT END LIKE LITERALITY

ability
air quality
augmented reality
confidentiality
equality
functionality
homosexuality
hospitality
in reality
inequality
locality
mortality
municipality
nationality
originality
personality
quality
reality
sexuality
speciality
spirituality

Synonyms and antonyms of literality in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «literality» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LITERALITY

Find out the translation of literality to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of literality from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «literality» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

直译
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

literalidad
570 millions of speakers

English

literality
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

literality
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

literality
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

буквальности
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

literalidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

literality
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

littéralité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesahihan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Literalität
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

literality
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

literality
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kesusastraan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

văn học
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

literality
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कलात्मकता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gerçeklik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

letteralità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dosłowność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

буквальності
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

literalitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κυριολεξίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

literalitie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bokstavlig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

literality
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of literality

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LITERALITY»

The term «literality» is used very little and occupies the 158.807 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LITERALITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «literality» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «literality» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about literality

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LITERALITY»

Discover the use of literality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to literality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Spirituality, sensuality, literality: blues, jazz, and rap ...
Discusses blues, jazz, and rap as music and poetry
Brian Dorsey, 2000
2
Metaphor and Thought
Conventional literality in which literal usage is contrasted with poetic usage. Subject-matter literality in which certain expressions are the usual ones used to talk about a particular topic. Nonmetaphorical literality, or directly meaningful ...
Andrew Ortony, 1993
3
Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage: A Methodological ...
The following five definitions have been distinguished in cognitive science (Gibbs 1993; 1994; Lakoff 1986; Recanati 1993, 1995): 1. Conventional literality, in which literal usage is contrasted with poetic usage, exaggeration, embellishment,  ...
Gerard Steen, 2007
4
Outsiders Looking in: The Rossettis Then and Now
William Michael, too, stresses that 'The aim of this translation of Dante [his version of Inferno, 1865] may be summed up in one word – Literality'.6 He distinguishes between translating the form of the poem (which entails preserving rhyme, ...
David Clifford, Laurence Roussillon, 2004
5
Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility: Perspectives ...
relationship between orality and literality is dichotomous: An expression is either realized in oral form or in written form. Because Tweets have a digital written form , Twitter belongs to the media-related literality on this axis. However ...
Ralph Tench, William Sun, 2014
6
Emmanuel Hocquard and the Poetics of Negative Modernity
Although emphasis on the medium gained currency in poets subsequent to Rimbaud and Mallarme — and we may think of Apollinaire, Cendrars, Roch, and Ponge — literality does not come into its own until the latter decades of the twentieth ...
Glenn Williams Fetzer, 2004
7
The Conventionality of Figurative Language: A Usage-based Study
The same holds true for meto- nymically motivated language (e.g. The White House isn't saying anything, He drives a BMW), although metonymy is usually not addressed in the literature on literality. This proves that the classic approaches to  ...
Sandra Handl, 2011
8
Bible and Interpretation: The Collected Essays of James ...
sentences like 'God is a spirit' or 'God is love,' then, literality does not work through grounding in physicality. Literality means, rather, accuracy in the delineation of spiritual or supernatural realities. Expressions like those quoted convey a fully ...
James Barr, John Barton, 2013
9
The Metaphoric Process: Connections Between Language and Life
And yet this belief can only be regarded as the inevitable conclusion of typical arguments of our classicity; in isolation, the statement that metaphors necessarily require an established background of literality would be nothing like a self- evident ...
Gemma Corradi Fiumara, 2005
10
Traces 5: Universities in Translation: The Mental Labour of ...
To dis-figure the figure: what can this “responsible literality” mean as the event of a new Comparative Literature, that is, as the goal of fundamental research and the definition of what needs to be done? Responsible literality is the political task  ...
Brett de Bary, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LITERALITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term literality is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Vince Staples Is the Second Coming of (Old-School) Ice Cube
... to witness the strength of narcotics,” nodding to the infamous first words of Straight Outta Compton while lethally injecting it with the literality of ... «Wired, Jun 15»
2
Prophets and Conspiracies
So how we understand what actually happened is, of course, subject to almost infinite variations – from fundamentalist literality through ... «Algemeiner, May 15»
3
The Nakedness of the Bible
Yet the way to understand it, they say, is to deny its literality, since the “Old Testament” is important, but only because it foretells the New. «Jewish Daily Forward, May 15»
4
As a grammarian contrarian, I love opposites. But what about …
... definitions for “literally”), so meaning is really an ever-evolving, democratic concept subject to the whims of a literality-abandoning populous. «The Guardian, May 15»
5
Review: Measure for Measure
But what distinguishes this production is its physicality, and the material literality of the political punishments, promotions and power struggles ... «Oxford Student, May 15»
6
New Canaan Library Hosts 'Al-Mutanabbi Street Project'
... pastels, charcoal), in size, in scope, in literality. But they all represent, in the artist's words, "the concept of collective memory and culture.". «The Daily Voice, Apr 15»
7
Monetary policy makeover
More recently, the 14th Finance Commission, with a tilt towards constitutional literality, has devolved a greater amount of financial resources to ... «Livemint, Mar 15»
8
Preview: Choreographer Jawole Zollar brings audacious, sassy …
“We call it 'hyper-literality,'” she says and defines the term as an intentional, artistic investigation. Dancers with the Urban Bush Women. «ArtsATL, Jan 15»
9
Beats Per Week, Jan. 22-28
In this week's award for literality, the Juke Bounce Werk collective comes to Rotture on Thursday with juke and future dance that will make you ... «Willamette Week, Jan 15»
10
Vice and VirtueInherent's a good trip, Selma walks too softly
And there may be no actor better suited to play the man than David Oyelowo. But this telling of the story, with its literality and toothless malice, ... «The Journal, Jan 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Literality [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/literality>. Apr 2024 ».
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