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Symbolization

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of symbolizing; the use of symbols to represent things, or the investing of things with a symbolic meaning. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning wordnet
  3. 3
    The unconscious mental representation of one thing by another. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible wordnet
  5. 5
    the use of symbols to convey meaning wordnet

Etymology

From symbol + -ization or symbolize + -ation.

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