Symbolism

German Meaning

Symbolismus

Symbolik

English Meaning

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