depiction
Americannoun
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representation in image form, as in a painting or illustration.
Picasso's painting Guernica is an accurate depiction of the horrors of war.
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representation or characterization in words.
Mark Twain's letters are a clear depiction of his life and times.
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an act or instance of depicting.
Etymology
Origin of depiction
First recorded in 1625–35; from Latin dēpictiōn-, stem of dēpictiō “portrayal,” equivalent to dēpict(us), past participle of dēpingere “to portray” + -iō -ion ( def. )
Example Sentences
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When you were making the film, were you and Paul, or you and your co-stars talking about the depiction of Black women in the movie?
From Los Angeles Times
On short video platform TikTok, the 26-year-old Delaware resident's depictions of her busy days receive tens of thousands of views or more.
From Barron's
The works she focused on included Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and Saul Bellow’s “Henderson the Rain King” with an eye toward the depictions of black characters.
It brings multidimensional Black characters, a nuanced depiction of the barriers to doing the right thing, and predicts the anger simmering years before the Crown Heights and Los Angeles race riots.
But she went behind the camera for a strikingly original documentary presenting views about, and depictions of, life after death: “Heaven.”
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