Crossword clues for symbolization
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Symbolization \Sym`bol*i*za"tion\, n. [Cf. F. symbolisation.]
The act of symbolizing; symbolical representation.
--Sir T.
Browne.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from French symbolisation, from symboliser (see symbolize).\n
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of symbolizing; the use of symbols to represent things, or the investing of things with a symbolic meaning 2 (context psychology English) The unconscious mental representation of one thing by another
WordNet
n. the use of symbols to convey meaning [syn: symbolisation]
something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible; "the eagle is a symbol of the United States" [syn: symbol, symbolisation, symbolic representation]
the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning [syn: symbolism, symbolisation]
Usage examples of "symbolization".
One of the older missionaries frowned at this intelligence, marling it down as one more proof of their doctor's essentially trivial attitude toward life, but his adverse opinion was not reported to his companions, because from a point forward of the Thetis a new board swept into view, and this one bore not a mere swimmer, but a nymph, a nude symbolization of all the pagan islands in the seven seas.