English Explanatory Dictionary

hyperliteralism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The phenomenon of misinterpreting metaphors and figurative rhetoric as being literal.

Word forms

hyperliteralism

Etymology

From hyper- + literal + -ism.

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