Synonyms for depiction
de·pic·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, 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. depicting, depiction, portraying, portrayalnoun

   a representation by picture or portraiture

   Synonyms:
   line drawing, characterization, depicting, portraiture, characterisation, limning, portrait, word-painting, delineation, word picture, portraying, portrayal, enactment, picture, personation

3. delineation, depiction, limning, line drawingnoun

   a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects

   Synonyms:
   characterization, line drawing, characterisation, depicting, word-painting, limning, word picture, delineation, portrayal, portraying, picture

4. depiction, delineation, portrayalnoun

   representation by drawing or painting etc

   Synonyms:
   line drawing, characterization, depicting, portraiture, characterisation, limning, portrait, word-painting, delineation, word picture, portraying, portrayal, enactment, picture, personation

Matched Categories

1. • Drawing
   • Pictorial Representation
   • Representational Process

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1. depictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   portrayal, delineation, description, picture

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1. List of paraphrases for "depiction":

   representation, description, portrayal, portrait

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1. Dee Barnes:

   I didn't want to see a depiction of me getting beat up, just like I didn't want to see a depiction of Dre beating up Michel'le. ... But what should have been addressed is that it occurred.

2. Hisham Fageeh:

   A city like Jeddah gives a really fresh image on how people should see Saudi Arabia and it's a very honest depiction.

3. Eric Garcetti:

   I don’t think that ‘Night at the Museum’ was an accurate depiction of what happens when the lights go down at the Museum of Natural History, but it still could get people excited about history, i hope ‘San Andreas’ will be a good popcorn thriller that awakens people about the importance of getting prepared for the big quake that is long overdue to happen.

4. Bill Miller:

   This theory accepts that the Darwinism that is fundamentally based on entire organisms in competition with each other is incomplete, the real narrative that really counts is unseen to our eyes. You have two moose locking horns over a female. It seems like that is the full depiction of the story of evolution, right there. It’s really just a side show. The real narrative is immunology, the cellular dynamics within the organisms, the collaborative relationships between all of our cells. These cells have their own cognitive capacity, with the linkages and partnerships between microbes.

5. Jason Wahler:

   I had everything in society the depiction was amazing -- I had money ; I had fame ; I had cars ; I had access and all this stuff, but I would be at my house -- at my own party with a couple hundred people -- in the bathroom, snorting cocaine and walk out with a beer and pretend everything was okay, in reality everything was so miserable, and I could n’t figure out why because I had everything everyone was trying to get.