literal meaning

53 Moby Thesaurus words for "literal meaning":
      affective meaning, bearing, coloring, connotation, consequence,
      denotation, drift, effect, essence, extension, force, gist,
      grammatical meaning, idea, impact, implication, import, intension,
      lexical meaning, meaning, overtone, pertinence, pith, point,
      practical consequence, purport, range of meaning, real meaning,
      reference, referent, relation, relevance, scope, semantic cluster,
      semantic field, sense, significance, signification, significatum,
      signifie, span of meaning, spirit, structural meaning, substance,
      sum, sum and substance, symbolic meaning, tenor,
      totality of associations, transferred meaning, unadorned meaning,
      undertone, value