Usually means: Interpreting narrative as symbolic representation.
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  1. allegorizing: Merriam-Webster
  2. allegorizing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. allegorizing: Vocabulary.com
  4. allegorizing: Wordnik
  5. allegorizing: Wiktionary
  6. Allegorizing, allegorizing: Dictionary.com
  7. Allegorizing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Allegorizing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. allegorizing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. allegorizing: FreeDictionary.org
  11. allegorizing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  The act or process of making an allegory.

Similar:
allegorising, allegorization, allegation, symbolification, alloyage, dramatization, fictionalization, legendization, satirization, literalization, more...

Opposite:
literalizing, interpreting, explaining

Types:
personification, metaphor, simile, parable, anecdote, myth, legend, fable, more...

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Similar:
allegorising, allegorization, allegation, symbolification, alloyage, dramatization, fictionalization, legendization, satirization, literalization, more...

Opposite:
literalizing, interpreting, explaining

Types:
personification, metaphor, simile, parable, anecdote, myth, legend, fable, more...



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