Synonyms: portrayal, personation, enactment, characterization
Definition: acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture
Similar words: performing, acting, playacting, playing
Definition: the performance of a part or role in a drama
Synonyms: portrayal, delineation, depiction
Definition: representation by drawing or painting etc
Similar words: pictorial representation, picturing
Definition: visual representation as by photography or painting
Definition: any likeness of a person, in any medium
Usage: the photographer made excellent portraits
Similar words: likeness, semblance
Definition: picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing
Synonyms: portrayal, portraying, depicting, depiction
Definition: a representation by picture or portraiture
Similar words: representational process
Definition: any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else
Synonyms: portrait, portraiture, portrayal
Definition: a word picture of a person's appearance and character
Similar words: characterisation, characterization, delineation, depiction, word picture, word-painting, picture
Definition: a graphic or vivid verbal description
Usage: 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