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Symbolic vs Symbolicism - What's the difference?

symbolic | symbolicism |

Symbolicism is a related term of symbolic.



As an adjective symbolic

is pertaining to a symbol.

As a noun symbolicism is

an approach to understanding human cognition that is committed to language like symbolic processing as the best method of explanation. ("Philosophy of Mind Dictionary".

symbolic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a symbol.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
  • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
  • Referring to something with an implicit meaning.
  • Derived terms

    * symbolical * symbolically * symbolics

    symbolicism

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An approach to understanding human cognition that is committed to language like symbolic processing as the best method of explanation. ("Philosophy of Mind Dictionary")