symbolization

IPA: sˈɪmbʌɫʌzˈeɪʃʌn

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

Examples of "symbolization" in Sentences

Although they're very different kinds of harvest festivals, the symbolization of a good harvest is an overflowing pot of kichdi.
5/THE CULT OF BAALOL The Synthesis Projector, a machine used commonly on the Arkon worlds, made it possible to synthesize emotions and thought impressions into a holograph of 'symbolization'.
But if the Hong Kong paintings are meant to recall mandalas, they certainly aren't the kind that intrigued Carl Jung with their symbolization of mythological pantheons and psycho-cultural archetypes.
Still, with its focus on broadly recognizable sounds rather than on culturally specific ideas, such as peculiar symbolization for the Egyptian sun-god Ra, this new alphabetic system of writing was nothing short of a revolution.
“The pronunciation is the actual living form of a word, that is, the word itself, of which the current spelling is only a symbolization – generally, indeed, only the traditionally-preserved symbolization of an earlier form, sometimes imperfect to begin with, still oftener corrupted in its passage to our time.” (original italics)