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How to pronounce symbolism in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms symbolisation, symbolization
Type of pattern, practice
Derivation symbolist
Type Words
Type of art movement, artistic movement
Derivation symbolist
Type Words
Type of symbol
Derivation symbolist

Examples of symbolism

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The symbolism as well as the substance of having ROTC on elite campuses matters.
From the thenewstribune.com
It was religious pageantry, heavy symbolism, political commentary and slapstick.
From the post-gazette.com
The hajj, packed with symbolism and ritual, is one of the five pillars of Islam.
From the sacbee.com
The symbolism is important, said Liz Kalef, executive director of the synagogue.
From the dispatch.com
She combines writing, patterns, texture, symbolism, color, lighting and shadows.
From the ocregister.com
Having more than one woman on the Supreme Court is partly a matter of symbolism.
From the washingtonpost.com
The symbolism is so prevalent that one starts seeing it where it isn't intended.
From the sltrib.com
I think that Paul's doctrine of dying with Christ may have more symbolism to it.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
I like the symbolism of President Obama addressing the parliament in Strasbourg.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • A system of symbols and symbolic representations
  • The practice of investing things with symbolic meaning
  • An artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images
  • (symbolic) emblematic: serving as a visible symbol for something abstract; "a crown is emblematic of royalty"; "the spinning wheel was as symbolic of colonical Massachusetts as the codfish"
  • (symbolize) typify: express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol; "What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?"
  • Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the movement had its roots in Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil, 1857) by Charles Baudelaire. ...
  • (Symbolic (Death album)) Symbolic is the sixth album by American death metal band Death. The album was released on March 21, 1995 through Roadrunner Records. The album was remastered and reissued on April 1, 2008 with five bonus tracks.
  • (Symbolic (Voodoo Glow Skulls album)) Symbolic is the Voodoo Glow Skulls' fifth full-length album. It was released on September 12, 2000 on Epitaph Records. This album marks the last appearance of the creator of the VGS horn style, Helios J Hernandez. ...
  • (The Symbolic) The Symbolic order is a part of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, part of his attempt 'to distinguish between those elementary registers whose grounding I later put forward in these terms: the symbolic, the imaginary, and the real - a distinction never previously made in ...