DEPICTIONS: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for DEPICTIONS?

Need another word that means the same as “depictions”? Find 11 synonyms and 30 related words for “depictions” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Depictions” are: delineation, portrayal, limning, line drawing, depicting, portraying, characterisation, characterization, picture, word-painting, word picture

Depictions as a Noun

Definitions of "Depictions" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “depictions” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A graphic or vivid verbal description.
• A representation by picture or portraiture.
• Representation by drawing or painting etc.
• A drawing of the outlines of forms or objects.

Synonyms of "Depictions" as a noun (11 Words)

characterisation	A graphic or vivid verbal description.
characterization	Acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture. She rejected that characterization of her film.
delineation	A graphic or vivid verbal description. The artist s exquisite delineation of costume and jewellery.
depicting	A representation by picture or portraiture.
limning	A drawing of the outlines of forms or objects.
line drawing	A mark that is long relative to its width.
picture	A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface. They could still receive the sound but the picture was gone.
portrayal	A description of someone or something in a particular way; a representation. The media portrayal of immigration.
portraying	A representation by picture or portraiture.
word picture	The divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus.
word-painting	A graphic or vivid verbal description.

Associations of "Depictions" (30 Words)

characterization	A description of the distinctive nature or features of someone or something. The pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters.
cinematic	Having qualities characteristic of films. The cinematic feel of their video.
daguerreotype	A photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor.
define	Give the meaning of (a word or phrase), especially in a dictionary. The river defines the park s boundary.
delineate	Indicate the exact position of (a border or boundary. His finger found a precisely outlined section delineated in red marker.
delineation	A graphic or vivid verbal description. The artist s exquisite delineation of costume and jewellery.
depict	Make a portrait of. These equations may be depicted on a graph.
describe	Give a detailed account in words of. Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental.
description	Sort or variety. It is laughably easy to buy drugs of all descriptions.
draw	Represent by making a drawing of as with a pencil chalk etc on a surface. David she whispered drawing him aside.
elucidate	Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear. Work such as theirs will help to elucidate this matter.
expatiate	Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing. She expatiated on working class novelists.
explain	Serve as a reason or cause or justification of. The committee explained their plan for fund raising to the Dean.
explanation	A statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc. The explanation was very simple.
exposition	A large public exhibition of art or trade goods. The exposition will feature exhibits by 165 companies.
expository	Serving to expound or set forth. Clean expository writing.
expound	Present and explain (a theory or idea) in detail. The abbess expounded the scriptures to her nuns.
gallery	A covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns. An art gallery.
illustrate	Provide (a book, newspaper, etc.) with pictures. Illustrate a book with drawings.
illustration	A picture illustrating a book, newspaper, etc. By way of illustration I refer to the following case.
interpret	Give an interpretation or explanation to. I agreed to interpret for Jean Claude.
interpretation	A mental representation of the meaning or significance of something. This action is open to a number of interpretations.
narrative	In the form of or concerned with narration. A narrative poem.
painter	An artist who paints pictures. A German landscape painter.
photography	The occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies.
picture	Show in or as in a picture. She had her picture painted.
portraiture	A word picture of a person’s appearance and character. Ingres is a master of portraiture.
portray	Portray in words. The book portrayed him as a self serving careerist.
portrayal	A description of someone or something in a particular way; a representation. The media portrayal of immigration.
snapshot	A record of the contents of a storage location or data file at a given time. My snapshots haven t been developed yet.