Associations to the word «Symbolization»

Wiktionary

SYMBOLIZATION, noun. The act of symbolizing; the use of symbols to represent things, or the investing of things with a symbolic meaning
SYMBOLIZATION, noun. (psychology) The unconscious mental representation of one thing by another

Dictionary definition

SYMBOLIZATION, noun. The use of symbols to convey meaning.
SYMBOLIZATION, noun. Something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible; "the eagle is a symbol of the United States".
SYMBOLIZATION, noun. The practice of investing things with symbolic meaning.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke