Usage Note
Simbolismo covers both the general concept (the use of symbols to represent ideas) and the specific late-19th-century literary and artistic movement (el Simbolismo) that influenced figures like Verlaine, Mallarmé, and Rubén Darío in Spanish. The adjective is simbólico; a practitioner is a simbolista. In religious contexts, simbolismo refers to symbolic meaning in ritual or iconography.
Examples
"El poema está lleno de simbolismo religioso."
Natural Translation
The poem is full of religious symbolism.

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