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The practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships.
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A system of symbols or representations.
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A symbolic meaning or representation.
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Revelation or suggestion of intangible conditions or truths by artistic invention.
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The movement, theory, or practice of the late 19th-century Symbolists.
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