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Synonyms for symbolic

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Synonyms for symbolic

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Synonyms for symbolic

relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols

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serving as a visible symbol for something abstract

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The rest of his escape does not lend itself to mystic treatment and symbolic interpretation.
Avoid the evil garden where died the man with two heads." Yet, while these shameful symbolic shapes passed across the ancient mirror of his Irish soul, his Frenchified intellect was quite alert, and was watching the odd priest as closely and incredulously as all the rest.
The birth of the symbolic 100mth babies which was witnessed by POPCOM, together with the Department of Health, and Philippine Health Insurance Corporation reminded us that the country's population already hit 100 million last July 27, 2014 at exactly 12:06 a.m.
Many may very well argue that it was merely a name sake Muslim country that he left behind, and his saving was just a symbolic act, the present day is a far better witness to the power, and influence his symbolic act holds.
KARACHI -- Opposition lawmakes in the Sindh Assembly Wednesday staged a symbolic walkout to protest the rising incidents of child abduction in Karachi.
Summary: The market capitalization of the "Societe de Manufacture des Boissons de Tunisie" (SFBT) has just exceeded the symbolic threshold of 4 billion dinars, a first in the history of the
Despite his failure to reach Philippine Rise, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the presence of President Duterte during the send-off of Filipino scientists remained 'symbolic.'
Symbolic Insult in Diplomacy: A Subtle Game of Diplomatic Slap
Organizations are based on main four frames: structural frame, human resource frame, political frame, and symbolic frame.
The analogy I will establish here is between the violent practices of Ridley's dystopia and the Lacanian register of the Real, which cannot be taken as separate from the other two registers of the Imaginary and the Symbolic. In his psychoanalytic theory, Lacan establishes his theory of the psyche through these three registers: the Real, the Imaginary and the Symbolic.
This issue of the Canadian Journal of Sociology is a departure from our normal practices, in that it is entirely dedicated to the extended article "The Institutionalization of Symbolic Interactionism in Canadian Sociology, 1922-1979: Success at What Cost?" co-authored by Richard Helmes-Hayes and Emily Milne.
The Symbolic Representation of Gender: A Discursive Approach; Emanuela Lombardo and Petra Meier; Ashgate; Surrey and Burlington, VT; vii + 225 pp; e-book.