symbolization
Americannoun
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the act or process of symbolizing.
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Psychoanalysis. an unconscious mental process whereby one object or idea comes to stand for another through some part, quality, or aspect that the two share in common, with the symbol carrying the emotional feelings vested in the initial object or idea.
Etymology
Origin of symbolization
Example Sentences
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Ruled the committee: "The Capitol Building itself is the best possible symbolization of the ideals of democracy."
From Time Magazine Archive
All this he can do with supreme skill because of his unique capacity for language and symbolization.
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All the same, there were difficulties of symbolization, which is why the distinctions that early theologians drew between various levels of angels did not endure in art.
From Time Magazine Archive
The net result: "plastic cosmogony" � which means, he says, "no longer a symbolization or interpretation but, through the specific means of art, a direct visualization of the forces which move our mind and body."
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This explanation, previous to the exhibition of the symbolization, is appropriate in the connection, and makes more forcible the fact that “the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.”
From A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Bliss, Sylvester
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