Words and phrases that have a meaning related to literal:  (185 results)
Often used in the same context:
metaphorical, figurative, allegorical, metaphysical, reductive, connotative, sophoclean, ontological, semiotic, nonliteral, literalized, chthonic, aleatory, biblical, textual, denotative, adverbial, overdetermined, grand guignol, nietzschean, epistemological, portentous, purgatorial, pantheistic, ostensive, ludic, nabokovian, aphoristic, hifalutin, poetic, postmodern, unpoetic, dantean, dostoevskian, teleological, trite, wordsworthian, absurdist, phrasal, banal, fetishistic, polysyllabic, tautological, eschatological, aristotelian logic, filmic, graspable, existential, hackneyed, onomatopoetic, terminological, midrashic, placeless, hieratic, spiritualized, philosophic, memento mori, iconographic, dantesque, deathless, contentless, authorial, literal interpretation, supernal, fantastical, kabbalistic, reductio ad absurdum, artful, abstract, philosophical, intransitive, joycean, prosaic, hortatory, classical mythology, legalistic, performative, sermonic, alliterative, oneiric, solipsistic, ponderable, incommensurable, sophistic, fictive, ex nihilo, didactic, pedantic, hyperbolic, objective correlative, liminal, highfalutin, kantian, scriptural, overfamiliar, referential, cliched, descriptive, profounder, esoteric, abstract noun, cosmic, literals, integer, operand, integers, divisor, operands, datatype, multiple, binary, decimal, vocal, real, bit, identifier, instantiation, simple, string, subscript, token, eigenvalue, univocal, metaphoric, symbolical, nuanced, inaccurate, inexact, pejorative, unproblematic, euphemistic, idiomatic, imprecise, indexical, tendentious, vaguer
More general:
error, mistake
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— Nouns for literal: sense, meaning, translation, interpretation, truth, reading, level, rendering, meanings, translations, fact, more...

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