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The word people use to mean figurative, and the dictionary just shrugged and allowed it.
means Exactly as stated, word for word, without metaphor or exaggeration — except when used to mean the opposite.
from From Latin littera, letter, via littera-lis, of letters — meaning to follow the actual letters on the page.
Self-betrayalNow officially also means figurative in major dictionaries.
Religious cousinSpawned literalism, reading scripture without metaphor.
Grammar trapLiterally dying rarely involves actual death.