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1. A graphic or vivid verbal description
   "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word depictions"
   - word picture, word-painting, delineation, picture, characterization, characterisation [Brit]
    
2. A representation by picture or portraiture
   - depicting, portraying, portrayal
    
3. A drawing of the outlines of forms or objects
   - delineation, limning, line drawing
    
4. Representation by drawing or painting etc
   - delineation, portrayal

Derived forms: depictions

See also: depict

Type of: description, drawing, pictorial representation, picturing, representational process, verbal description

Encyclopedia: Depiction