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depiction
[ dih-pik-shuhn ]
noun
- representation in image form, as in a painting or illustration:
Picasso's painting Guernica is an accurate depiction of the horrors of war.
- representation or characterization in words:
Mark Twain's letters are a clear depiction of his life and times.
- an act or instance of depicting.
Word History and Origins
Origin of depiction1
Example Sentences
He suspected that she had unconsciously registered the rotting stairs, and her dream was a vivid depiction of the threat.
Some of the depictions of landscapes are actual and unaltered.
The gorgeous ocean-floor depictions were included as poster-sized supplements in issues of National Geographic magazine between 1967 and 1971.
Numerous critics have argued that the burden of an accurate depiction of history would be too unduly heavy for a lightweight story like Bridgerton to bear.
By refusing to show us a “true” depiction of the Isu civilization, and viewing it only through the lens of cultures we know, we begin to have a deeper connection to the past, even as the truth remains forever obscured from us.
“We prove that the depiction of military in the media is always better with veterans,” reads their website.
Next door in Romania, a historical figure nicknamed Vlad the Impaler inspired the first mainstream depiction of a vampire.
I would cringe the same way you would if I felt [the depiction was problematic].
Dovlatov lived for a long time in Leningrad and gave a loving depiction of it, but nbsp;there is no street named for him there.
Black wore a hat with his surname, the A formed by a depiction of the African continent.
The elevation in the drawing you have indicated as "A" is a depiction of what?
He has pages of clear depiction, even of satire, but the sentimentalist is always lurking just round the corner.
I should like the reader to note how complete is Mr. Eliot's depiction of our contemporary condition.
But this slight defect is more than atoned for by the power shown in the depiction of character.
Each letter is to give an absolutely faithful account of her life, with a perfectly truthful depiction of her real character.
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