> Much like how "literally" now gets used to mean "figuratively" It is not used to mean “figuratively”, it is figuratively as an intensifier for other figurati

> Much like how "literally" now gets used to mean "figuratively" It is not used to mean “figuratively”, it is figuratively as an intensifier for other figurative descriptions. If it was meant to mean “figuratively”, then it would be used in senses which the audience would not otherwise understand as figurative and be the thing which told them that the other term used was figurative; that is very much not the case.