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Webster 1913 Edition


Symbolization

Symˊbol-i-za′tion

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Noun.
[Cf. F.
symbolisation
.]
The act of symbolizing; symbolical representation.
Sir T. Browne.

Webster 1828 Edition


Symbolization

SYMBOLIZA'TION

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Noun.
[See Symbolize.] The act of symbolizing; resemblance in properties.

Definition 2024


symbolization

symbolization

English

Noun

symbolization (countable and uncountable, plural symbolizations)

  1. The act of symbolizing; the use of symbols to represent things, or the investing of things with a symbolic meaning
  2. (psychology) The unconscious mental representation of one thing by another