kyriology

From Ancient Greek κύριος (kúrios, “literal”) +‎ -ology.

kyriology (uncountable)

1. The use of literal or simple expressions, as distinguished from the use of figurative or obscure language.
   • 1878, Charles Porterfield Krauth, William Fleming, Henry Calderwood, A Vocabulary of the Philosophical Sciences:

     KYRIOLEXY, KYRIOLOGY (Gr.), the use of literal expressions, as opposed to figurative […]

• kyriolexy

• kyriological

• “kyriology”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.