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Greek
Etymology
Learned borrowing from French symbolisme. By surface analysis, σύμβολ(ο) (sýmvol(o)) + -ισμός (-ismós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /siɱ.vo.liˈzmos/
- Hyphenation: συμ‧βο‧λι‧σμός
Noun
συμβολισμός • (symvolismós) m (plural συμβολισμοί)
- symbolism (representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities)
- notation (the act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters)
- notation (a system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities)
- (art) symbolism (an art movement originating in late 19th-century France and Belgium, seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism)
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