symbolic language

American  

noun

1. a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.

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Example Sentences

This project delves into the autonomous region of Gagauzia, capturing its vibrant culture through traditional weaving and its symbolic language.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2024

This symbolic language is what has become modern logic.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

But this is that rare movie that transcends its role as pure entertainment to become something genuinely cathartic, even therapeutic, giving children a symbolic language with which to manage their unruliest emotions.

From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2015

Although Mr. Sparling’s work sticks to Graham’s symbolic language, Dr. Franko’s book makes clear that in analysis and in “Voyage,” she was struggling with the breakup of her marriage to the choreographer Erick Hawkins.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2014

Surely, here is atonement by blood, and cleansing by the washing of water through the word, as plainly described as symbolic language can utter it.

From The Theology of Holiness by Clark, Dougan