Literality

Literality: noun. The measure of how literal someone is; therefore one can have a literality ranging from low literality to high literality, depending on how figurative one is.Literality has been standardly measured in varying tests since the 1850's. For example, the famous "Great Big Test" from 1864, held by THE VICTORIAN SOCIETY included an entire section which was meant to determine the overall literality of the population of Guernsey.