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symbolisation

symbolisation is the alternative form of symbolization.

Meaning of symbolization

Noun

symbolization (countable and uncountable, plural symbolizations)

  1. The act of symbolizing; the use of symbols to represent things, or the investing of things with a symbolic meaning.
  2. The unconscious mental representation of one thing by another.

Forms of symbolisation

pluralsymbolisations

Origin of symbolisation

From symbol + -isation.

Questions about symbolisation

What is symbolisation the alternative form of?
Symbolisation is the alternative form of symbolization.

Words near symbolisation in the dictionary

  1. symbolifies
  2. symbolify
  3. symbolifying
  4. symboling
  5. symbolisable
  6. symbolisation
  7. symbolisations
  8. symbolise
  9. symbolised
  10. symboliser
  11. symbolisers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: symbolisation (page history and authors); symbolization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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