Literal vs Notional - What's the difference?
literal | notional |
Exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical.
* Hooker
Following the letter or exact words; not free; not taking liberties.
(uncommon) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
* Johnson
(of a person) Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of-fact.
(programming) A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.
(logic) A propositional variable or the negation of a propositional variable.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_%28logic%29]
Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
(linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
(finance) (Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount)
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As adjectives the difference between literal and notional
is that literal is exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical while notional is of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.As a noun literal
is (programming) a value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.literal
Alternative forms
* litteral (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The literal translation is “hands full of bananas” but it means empty-handed.
- a middle course between the rigour of literal translation and the liberty of paraphrasts
- A literal reading of the law would prohibit it, but that is clearly not the intent.
- a literal equation
- The literal notation of numbers was known to Europeans before the ciphers.
Antonyms
* (exactly as stated) figurativeNoun
(en noun)See also
* constant * prime formulaExternal links
* *Anagrams
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This paper proposes a notional Federated Identity Management (FIM) architecture.
