Definition of Symbolization

1. Noun. The use of symbols to convey meaning.

Exact synonyms: Symbolisation
Generic synonyms: Import, Meaning, Significance, Signification
Derivative terms: Symbolise, Symbolize

2. Noun. Something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible. "The eagle is a symbol of the United States"

3. Noun. The practice of investing things with symbolic meaning.
Exact synonyms: Symbolisation, Symbolism
Generic synonyms: Pattern, Practice
Derivative terms: Symbolist, Symbolist

Definition of Symbolization

1. n. The act of symbolizing; symbolical representation.

Definition of Symbolization

1. Noun. The act of symbolizing; the use of symbols to represent things, or the investing of things with a symbolic meaning ¹

2. Noun. (psychology) The unconscious mental representation of one thing by another ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Symbolization

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Symbolization

symbolics
symboling
symbolisable
symbolisation
symbolise
symbolised
symboliser
symbolises
symbolising
symbolism
symbolisms
symbolist
symbolistic
symbolists
symbolizable
symbolization (current term)
symbolizations
symbolize
symbolized
symbolizer
symbolizers
symbolizes
symbolizing
symbolled
symbolling
symbological
symbologies
symbologist
symbologists
symbology

Literary usage of Symbolization

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Factory Storekeeping: The Control and Storage of Materials by Henry Hallowell Farquhar (1922)
"First, the difference between classification and symbolization should be kept in mind. Classification is nothing more nor less than segregating those things ..."

2. Stores and Materials Control by Madison Cartmell (1922)
"Classification and symbolization of Products There remains to be considered the classification and symbolization of the products of the concern. ..."

3. The Theological and Literary Journal (1856)
"... system of specific laws of symbolization the vast and varied symbolism of Scripture, which lays hold of all beings and all departments of human life, ..."

4. The Theological and Literary Journal (1851)
"... and is in direct contradiction both to the laws of symbolization, and the interpretation—" This is the first resurrection,"—given in the passage itself ..."

5. A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus: Containing Differential and Integral by Bartholomew Price (1854)
"The symbolization which I shall adopt is the following : let there be n independent variables, x\, x%, ...xn; and let the integral be expressed by ..."

6. Mental Development and Education by Michael Vincent O'Shea (1921)
"IV HIGHER FORMS OF ADAPTIVE ACTIVITY : GENERALIZATION, symbolization, IMAGINATION, REASON 1. Do primitive people rely entirely upon the trial-and-error ..."

7. Factory Storekeeping: The Control and Storage of Materials by Henry Hallowell Farquhar (1922)
"First, the difference between classification and symbolization should be kept in mind. Classification is nothing more nor less than segregating those things ..."

8. Stores and Materials Control by Madison Cartmell (1922)
"Classification and symbolization of Products There remains to be considered the classification and symbolization of the products of the concern. ..."

9. The Theological and Literary Journal (1856)
"... system of specific laws of symbolization the vast and varied symbolism of Scripture, which lays hold of all beings and all departments of human life, ..."

10. The Theological and Literary Journal (1851)
"... and is in direct contradiction both to the laws of symbolization, and the interpretation—" This is the first resurrection,"—given in the passage itself ..."

11. A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus: Containing Differential and Integral by Bartholomew Price (1854)
"The symbolization which I shall adopt is the following : let there be n independent variables, x\, x%, ...xn; and let the integral be expressed by ..."

12. Mental Development and Education by Michael Vincent O'Shea (1921)
"IV HIGHER FORMS OF ADAPTIVE ACTIVITY : GENERALIZATION, symbolization, IMAGINATION, REASON 1. Do primitive people rely entirely upon the trial-and-error ..."

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