literalism

noun literalisms

1. uncountable, usually Literal interpretation or understanding; adherence to the exact letter or precise significance, as in interpreting or translating. Literal interpretation has always been a marked feature of Premillennialism; in Dispensationalism it has been carried to an extreme. We have seen that this literalism found its most thoroughgoing expression in the claim that Israel must mean Israel, that it cannot mean the Church, that the Old Testa
2. uncountable, usually The style of art portraying a subject as literally and accurately as possible. The two main forms of literalism are ergism and orthodoxy.