literalism

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)Literal interpretation or understanding; adherence to the exact letter or precise significance, as in interpreting or translating.

   “Elsewhere, the liturgiologists were said to have "disembowelled the language of the Book of Common Prayer and the Bible" and produced in its place "the bland literalisms of Series 3 and the ASB[.]"”

   “Furthermore, what would otherwise be good points about the sort of selective literalism that renders homosexuality an unpardonable sin but shrugs off Sarah Palin’s biblically forbidden pearl earrings are lost in Eichenwald’s assumption that evangelicals make these decisions “with less care than they exercise in selecting side orders for lunch.””

2. (uncountable, usually)The style of art portraying a subject as literally and accurately as possible.

   “The two main forms of literalism are ergism and orthodoxy.”