Definition of "literalization" [lit•er•al•i•za•tion]

• The act or process of literalizing. (noun)

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• "Some reviewers have pointed out that this premise is a kind of literalization of a metaphor or series of metaphors that will feel appropriate and even familiar to most city dwellers, and that's true, but I think there's more to it."
• "Not an anatomical literalization of a questionable anthropological concept floating among many others on a fun, yes, but scarcely reliable website even students are cautioned against taking too seriously."
• "I mean, that's the other part of the story is that these physical fights are just sort of, you know, literalization of these metaphorical emotional things that we all go through in a relationship."