literalism
- n the doctrine of realistic (literal) portrayal in art or literature
- n a disposition to interpret statements in their literal sense
- With the Supreme Court's creationism decision, Louisiana teachers will no longer be forced to present biblical literalism as science.
- The erosion of literalism, moreover, may have put the Bible's poetry in sharper relief.
- In the wake of Vatican II, many American Catholics "wanted to restrict things to only a scientific way of knowing" and shied away from the rite's supernatural literalism, says the .