Synonyms for Characterization
ˌkær ɪk tər əˈzeɪ ʃənchar·ac·ter·i·za·tion

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1. word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, picture, characterization, characterisationnoun

   a graphic or vivid verbal description

   "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters"

   Synonyms:
   personation, portrayal, flick, portraying, mental picture, film, moving picture, depicting, impression, depiction, limning, characterization, picture, motion-picture show, video, ikon, movie, scene, delineation, characterisation, word-painting, pic, line drawing, exposure, image, photo, motion picture, pictorial matter, photograph, icon, enactment, painting, word picture, moving-picture show, picture show

2. characterization, characterisationnoun

   the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features

   "the media's characterization of Al Gore as a nerd"

   Synonyms:
   characterization, depiction, characterisation, personation, word-painting, delineation, word picture, portrayal, enactment, picture

3. portrayal, characterization, enactment, personationnoun

   acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture

   Synonyms:
   portraiture, portrayal, personation, characterisation, portraying, enactment, depiction, word-painting, depicting, characterization, portrait, act, passage, impersonation, word picture, picture, delineation

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1. • Acting
   • Description

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1. characterizationnoun

   Synonyms:
   designation (of properties), specification

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1. List of paraphrases for "characterization":

   characterisation, characterizing, characterize, qualification, profiling, identification, fingerprinting

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How to use Characterization in a sentence?

1. Joe Biden:

   Look, I just think we got a lot of really good candidates out there and they're making their case and I don't, I don't put a whole lot in terms of labels, i'm not going to comment on Bernie's characterization of who or what it is. Bernie Sanders's sincere about what Bernie Sanders, what Bernie Sanders thinks and I think Bernie Sanders should go out and say it.

2. David Sabatini:

   Was my lab kind of freewheeling and fun? Yes, you know, was the word retarded used sometimes, yes. That there was sort of outright sexism to people, no, and I certainly wouldn’t have tolerated that if that was the case so I do resist certainly a locker room atmosphere – I resist that characterization. Was it light and banter-full and people joked around and made fun of each other sometimes, yes, but in a very mutual kind of way.

3. Jody Culham:

   This work may be the richest characterization ever conducted of a single patient’s visual system, she has shown this very profound recovery of vision, based on her perception of motion.

4. Justin Trudeau:

   I strongly maintain, as I have from the beginning, that I and my staff always acted appropriately and professionally, i therefore completely disagree with (Wilson-Raybould's) characterization of events.

5. Marc Chandler:

   Markets are worried about a more hawkish type of tapering, the Fed could drop its characterization of inflation as being transitory, and the second thing is the markets are saying as soon as the Fed gets done with its tapering, they’re going hike rates.