Definitions
the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning
Word origin
From symbol + -ism, sense 2 being a semantic loan from French symbolisme.
Used in a sentence
“The undeveloped or mysterically confused thought which exists in savages is fully exemplified in the childish or crazy atavistic anthropomorphism and symbolism so prevalent among degenerates.”
“The cross-fertilization of Elizabethan drama with French symbolism gave rise to the "Princess Maleine", a new species if there ever was one, Shakespearean in form and incident, most un-Shakespearean in everything else.”
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01“Meaning through signs”9 letters
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