Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of symbolizing; the use of symbols to represent things, or the investing of things with a symbolic meaning.

    the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning

  2. (countable, uncountable)The unconscious mental representation of one thing by another.

Origin

From symbol + -ization or symbolize + -ation.

From symbol + -ization or symbolize + -ation.

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Forms

plural: symbolizations
Singularsymbolization
Pluralsymbolizations

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the use of symbols to convey meaning:symbolisation
  • the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning:symbolismsymbolisation
  • something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible:symbolsymbolisationsymbolic representation

Word family

1 related words
Relatedsymbolize

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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