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Narrowness vs Literalness - What's the difference?

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Narrowness is a related term of literalness.


As nouns the difference between narrowness and literalness

is that narrowness is (uncountable) the state of being narrow while literalness is the property of being literal.

narrowness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) the state of being narrow
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , presently, then, I felt the stiff insertion between the yielding, divided lips of the wound, now open for life; where the narrowness no longer put me to intolerable pain, and afforded my lover no more difficulty than what heighten'd his pleasure, in the strict embrace of that tender, warm sheath, round the instrument it was so delicately adjusted to}}
  • (countable) a constriction

    • Antonyms

    *(state of being narrow) broadness, wideness

    literalness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The property of being literal.