literalize
verb (used with object)
literalization
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a word derived from
literalize.
Example Sentences
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Sometimes the feeling is fey; other times the literalization of song ideas flirts with corniness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
Her quest is ultimately existentialist, a literalization of Sartre’s inexactitudes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
He seems to leave home only to buy chocolate at a local newsstand or, once, after noticing a pain in his foot, to have an ingrown toenail removed, an apt literalization of his enervating self-involvement.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 15, 2019
They were the perfect literalization of a metaphor: The countryside was becoming a burnt husk of itself.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2017
Laughter in the Dark is a literalization of the axiom, "Love is blind."
From Time Magazine Archive
