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

For example, philosopher Hubert Dreyfus's thesis in his 1972 book What Computers Can't Do was that cognition cannot be codified in the symbolic language of computers.

From Scientific American • Sep. 24, 2022

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

It is usually described in the symbolic language of the apocalypse.

From The Makers and Teachers of Judaism by Kent, Charles Foster