literalness

literalness
n
1. literality, accuracy, exactness, exactitude, precision, preciseness, closeness, faithfulness, trueness, truth, authenticity, honesty, ex-plicitness; unambiguousness, unambiguity, clearness, unequivocality; factualness, factuality, actuality, ac-tualness, realism, reality, credibility, credibleness, believableness, naturalness.
2. objectivity, directness, straightness, plainness, simpleness, simplicity, pureness.
3. literal-mindedness, prosaicness, prosiness, unimaginativeness, unimagination, dullness, bor-ingness, boredom; vapidity, tediousness, tiresomeness, wearisomeness; slowness, simple-mindedness, ob-tuseness, bluntness, heaviness.
4. narrowness, hideboundness, inflexibleness, inflexibility, rigidness, rigidity.

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