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What is the noun for metaphorizing?

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metaphor
  1. (uncountable and countable, rhetoric) The use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it is not, invoking a direct similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described (but in the case of English without the words like or as, which would imply a simile); the word or phrase used in this way; an implied comparison.
  2. (countable, graphical user interface) The use of an everyday object or concept to represent an underlying facet of the computer and thus aid users in performing tasks.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Of course, poetry is also, even largely, driven by metaphor and image in a host of ways.”
      “Of course poetry is also, even largely, driven by metaphor and image, in a host of ways.”
      “Whether he was hoping for a literal metaphor that expressed very clearly how he had lost his shirt, I cannot say.”
metaphoreme
  1. (linguistics) A non-literal expression with a relatively fixed lexicogrammatical form and specific semantics and pragmatics, associated with metaphoric language.
metaphoricity
  1. The quality of being metaphorical.
  2. Examples:
    1. “To do so, she explores the idea of metaphoricity, transforming conceits into self-reflexive, self-questioning, and ultimately self-effacing representation.”
metaphorization
  1. The process of metaphorizing.
metaphorician
  1. One who employs metaphors.
metaphorist
  1. One who makes metaphors.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Bill must be the most astonishing and delightful and heartbreaking metaphorist in all of fiction and philosophy, and most of poetry, too.”
      “Lewis may have been a metaphorist all along, and his visual reach was probably strengthened by his own racial struggles.”
      “But with John Prescott, left, retiring shortly, it's great that Wales now appears to have a mixed metaphorist of its own ready to take up his mantle.”
metaphorizations
  1. plural of metaphorization
metaphoricians
  1. plural of metaphorician
metaphoricities
  1. plural of metaphoricity
metaphoremes
  1. plural of metaphoreme
metaphorists
  1. plural of metaphorist
metaphors
  1. plural of metaphor
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Fabre explains that his metaphors are simultaneously real and illusory, physical and abstract, living and dead.”
      “Politics and business are abustle with sports metaphors and endorsements by athletes.”
      “But grammar and syntax and a horror of cliches and mixed metaphors were the least things he taught me.”
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