verb
- making something literal; interpreting or representing something in an exact, word-for-word manner
Usage: present participle of ‘literalize’
Examples
- The artist was literalizing the poem by creating exact visual representations of each line.
- She criticized the director for literalizing the metaphors instead of preserving their symbolic meaning.
- The translation team focused on literalizing the ancient text to maintain accuracy.
- By literalizing the fairy tale, the adaptation lost much of its magical quality.
- The student was literalizing every figure of speech in the novel.
- Critics argued that literalizing the abstract concepts made the theory less compelling.