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▸ noun: An art movement originating in late 19th-century France and Belgium, seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A combining together of parts or ingredients.
Similar:
symbolization,
symbolizing,
allegory,
objective correlative,
meaning,
imagery,
figuration,
iconism,
representation,
representationism,
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religious,
christian,
sexual,
political,
sound,
traditional,
mathematical,
cultural,
rich,
phallic,
complex
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