English

Noun

literalization ‎(countable and uncountable, plural literalizations)

1. The act or process of literalizing.
   • 2007 September 23, Dale Peck, “‘The Outsiders’: 40 Years Later”, in New York Times:

     One suspects, however, that it was accidental here, or unconscious, just as it’s likely that Hinton’s echo of the testimonial frame Salinger used in “The Catcher in the Rye” (“If you really want to hear about it”) wasn’t consciously intended, nor was Hinton’s literalization of Holden’s “If a body catch a body coming through the rye” into the rescue of a group of children from a burning church.