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iconology

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun iconology has 1 sense

iconology(n = noun.cognition) - the branch of art history that studies visual images and their symbolic meaning (especially in social or political terms);

is a kind of

art history

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CIDE DICTIONARY

iconology, n. [Gr. ; e'ikw`n an image + discourse: cf. F. iconologie.].

The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

iconology, n.
1 an artistic theory developed from iconography (see ICONOGRAPHY 2b).
2 symbolism.

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THESAURUS

iconology

allegory, charactery, cipher, conventional symbol, emblem, ideogram, logogram, logotype, love knot, pictogram, symbol, symbolic system, symbolism, symbolization, symbology, token, totem, totem pole, type

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