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PRONUNCIATION OF LITERALIZATION

literalization  [ˌlɪtərəlaɪˈzeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LITERALIZATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Literalization 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.

WHAT DOES LITERALIZATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of literalization in the English dictionary

The definition of literalization in the dictionary is the act of making literal or interpreting literally.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LITERALIZATION


authorization
ˌɔːθəraɪˈzeɪʃən
characterization
ˌkærɪktəraɪˈzeɪʃən
civilization
ˌsɪvɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən
customization
ˌkʌstəmaɪˈzeɪʃən
globalization
ˌɡləʊbəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
hospitalisation
ˌhɒspɪtəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
hospitalization
ˌhɒspɪtəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
hybridization
ˌhaɪbrɪdaɪˈzeɪʃən
localization
ˌləʊkəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
novelization
ˌnɒvəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
optimisation
ˌɒptɪmaɪˈzeɪʃən
optimization
ˌɒptɪmaɪˈzeɪʃən
organisation
ˌɔːɡənaɪˈzeɪʃən
organization
ˌɔːɡənaɪˈzeɪʃən
realization
ˌrɪəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
specialization
ˌspeʃəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
stabilization
ˌsteɪbɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən
synchronization
ˌsɪŋkrənaɪˈzeɪʃən
utilization
ˌjuːtɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən
visualization
ˌvɪʒʊəlaɪˈzeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LITERALIZATION

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE LITERALIZATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of literalization in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «literalization» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LITERALIZATION

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

Translator English - Chinese

literalization
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

literalización
570 millions of speakers

English

literalization
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

literalization
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

literalization
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

literalization
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

literalização
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

literalization
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

littéralisation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Literalis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Literalisierung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

リテラル
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

literalization
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Literalisasi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

literalization
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

literalization
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शाब्दिकता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

literalization
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

letteralizzazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dosłowności
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

literalization
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

literalization
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

literalization
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

literalization
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

literalization
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

literalization
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of literalization

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LITERALIZATION»

The term «literalization» is used very little and occupies the 185.856 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LITERALIZATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «literalization» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «literalization» 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 literalization

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LITERALIZATION»

Discover the use of literalization in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to literalization and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Copenhagen Working Papers in Linguistics
'to drilPhorizontally'; referring to a newly invented technique in Danish oil industry research) In the present grammar model idiomaticity is captured by a function termed 'literalization' (cf. Chafe 1968). Literal ization is either, (a) a function ...
Lars von der Lieth, 1996
2
Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives
As noted elsewhere, The Wrongs of Woman opens with what Margaret Homans suggests is a particularly female way of representing women's experience: that is, with the “literalization” of a common figure of the dominant culture.1 The text ...
Helen M. Buss, D.L. Macdonald, Anne McWhir, 2006
3
Satire: Spirit and Art
Huxley's "In the Year of Our Ford . . . ," and Waugh's "Great State" and "For State's Sake" function in the same way. Literalization. This is one of the most widespread but least recognized techniques of the satirist and an effective source of irony.
George Austin Test, 1991
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The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740
—Eight—. Romance. Transformations. (n): Bunyan. and. the. Literalization. of. Allegory. Reading The Pilgrim's Progress (1678, 1684) is like being Don Quixote: face to face with a reality that has been enchanted by an evil sage, but also privy  ...
‎2002
5
Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: From ...
In Bearing the Word, Homans argues that nineteenth-century women's literature demonstrates a psycholinguistically intelligible combination of both attraction to and repulsion from literalization, which she defines as “a series of literary ...
Janis McLarren Caldwell, 2004
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Science and an African Logic
The paper that constitutes chapter 9 makes three categorical errors of literalization that secure the differences I show. I have come to recognize my relativist theory as a comedy of errors. The literalizations have the effect, among other things, ...
Helen Verran, 2001
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Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine
Conclusion One of the profits of reading The Metamorphosis is its gift of a firmer hold on the contested term of “literalization.” “Literalization” must be taken as a process only, as a movement toward an end-state that can never be actually ...
Stanley Corngold, Benno Wagner, 2011
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Ali Smith: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Like Anna's literalization of inversion, Else's literalization is a kind of graphic metaphor, a making visible in writing something that can only be heard, the dropping of vowels, or perhaps finding in shorthand the written equivalent of something ...
Monica Germana, Emily Horton, 2013
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The Consolations of Space: The Place of Romance in ...
Literalization, therefore, never serves to reduce or neutralize allusive material at all, but rather to elevate what might be merely rhetorical and conventional to the level of metaphysical principle. We have already seen, especially in Hawthorne's  ...
Pamela Schirmeister, 1990
10
Reading at the Social Limit: Affect, Mass Culture, and Edgar ...
This embodiment is also what Warner calls a "literalization": more than simply a radical conflation of text and identity, such a literalization is the creation of identity as a kind of textual precipitate. But this literalization, while it affirms the principle ...
Jonathan Elmer, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LITERALIZATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term literalization is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Good Intentions and Unspectacular Results in Two Big New …
It is the literalization of some very lively things (music, movement), but it is not itself those things. Rather, it kills them and marks the burial in ... «TheStranger.com, Jun 15»
2
Why Academics Are Interested In The Naked Men Of Poldark And …
Randall's sadistic desiring gaze upon, flogging, subjugation and branding of Jamie Fraser's body is a literalization of the English violence ... «Science 2.0, Jun 15»
3
We Review a Self-Published E-Book About a Russian Werewolf
In a jarring literalization of a simile, it turns out the pig actually is being murdered! Out back, by a werewolf. In the excitement, the writer can't ... «Wired, May 15»
4
David Cronenberg's Horror Portrait of Hollywood
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 ... «The New Yorker, Mar 15»
5
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Kelly Link
It's a kind of literalization-of-metaphor treatment of what a lot of young people already are doing on social media sites, and it's a good example ... «Locus Online, Feb 15»
6
10 movies that got sexy long before '50 Shades of Grey'
Not the overwrought Oscar winner about racism, but David Cronenberg's literalization of the term "auto-eroticism." A car accident victim (James ... «Tampabay.com, Feb 15»
7
He specialized in deconstructing traditional Christian beliefs about …
Only with education and post-adolescent critical thinking did he reject “childlike literalization of the personifications of God.” Rejecting God as a ... «American Spectator, Jan 15»
8
'Man Seeking Woman' Review: Dating Trolls and Looking for Love
But in the three episodes I've seen, the literalization of Josh's subconscious fears, hopes, and dreams works pretty well. The show is rarely ... «Yahoo TV, Jan 15»
9
White Space: The Architecture of the Art Fair
... literalization of the modernist ideal of extensio, or the abstract conception of purely mathematical space (which is to say, a non-place space). «Archinect, Jan 15»
10
Bayonetta and .error404: Two Concepts of Nudity
The lines and arches of her performance are there to communicate a dominatrix's unique form of dominion, it is a literalization of sexual ... «Paste Magazine, Jan 15»

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