Usually means: Strict adherence to literal interpretation.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word literalist:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. literalist: Merriam-Webster
  2. literalist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. literalist: Collins English Dictionary
  4. literalist: Wordnik
  5. literalist: Wiktionary
  6. Literalist, literalist: Dictionary.com
  7. Literalist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. literalist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Literalist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. literalist: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Literalist: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. literalist: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. literalist: Encyclopedia

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

(Note: See literalism as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (literalist)

noun:  A person who adheres to the literal representation of a statement or law.
noun:  A person who translates a text literally.
noun:  (art) One who works in the style of literalism.

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