Noun
The act of symbolizing; the use of symbols to represent things, or the investing of things with a symbolic meaning.
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The unconscious mental representation of one thing by another.
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Noun
the use of symbols to convey meaning
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something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
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the eagle is a symbol of the United States
the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning
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