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Literalization vs Literalize - What's the difference?

literalization | literalize | Derived terms |

Literalize is a derived term of literalization.



As a noun literalization

is the act or process of literalizing.

As a verb literalize is

to make literal or prosaic.

literalization

English

Noun

  • The act or process of literalizing.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 23, author=Dale Peck, title=‘The Outsiders’: 40 Years Later, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=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. }}

    literalize

    English

    Alternative forms

    *literalise

    Verb

    (literaliz)
  • To make literal or prosaic
  • *{{quote-news, 2009, January 15, Ben Ratliff, Club Jazz That Travels a Line Between Old Fashions and New Tastes, New York Times citation
    • , passage=The band seemed at the start to literalize a mysterious piece of writing; its structure was clear when this band played it. }}

    Derived terms

    *literalization