symbolic representation

Questions about symbolic representation

What does symbolic representation mean?

symbolic representation means "something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible".

What is another word for symbolic representation?

Close synonyms include symbol, symbolization, symbolisation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is symbolic representation a common word?

symbolic representation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.