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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun characterization has 3 senses

• characterization(n = noun.communication) characterisation, delineation, depiction, picture, word picture, word-painting - 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"
is a kind of description, verbal description
has particulars: epithet, portrait, portraiture, portrayal

• characterization(n = noun.communication) characterisation - the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features; "the media's characterization of Al Gore as a nerd"
is a kind of description
Derived form verb characterize₁

• characterization(n = noun.act) enactment, personation, portrayal - acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture; Array
is a kind of acting, performing, playacting, playing
has particulars: impression, character, part, persona, role, theatrical role

CIDE DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

characterization

acting, action, alphabet, anagnorisis, angle, aping, architectonics, architecture, argument, art, atmosphere, background, blueprint, buffoonery, business, cameo, catalog, cataloging, catastrophe, character, character sketch, charactering, chart, choreography, color, complication, continuity, contrivance, conventional representation, dance notation, definition, delineation, demonstration, denomination, denotation, denouement, depiction, depictment, description, design, designation, details, development, device, diagram, differentiation, disclosure, distinction, drama, drawing, dumb show, embodiment, enacting, enactment, episode, evocation, exemplification, expression, fable, falling action, figuration, fingering, gag, gimmick, graphic account, ham, hammy acting, hieroglyphic, hint, hoke, hokum, iconography, identification, ideogram, illustration, image, imagery, imaging, imitation, impersonation, impression, incarnation, incident, indication, indicativeness, itemization, letter, limning, line, local color, logogram, logograph, manifestation, map, masquerade, meaning, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mood, motif, movement, mummery, musical notation, mythos, naming, notation, overacting, pantomime, pantomiming, particularization, patter, performance, performing, peripeteia, personation, personification, photograph, picking out, pictogram, picture, picturization, plan, playacting, playing, plot, pointing, pointing out, pointing to, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, posing, prefigurement, presentment, printing, profile, projection, realization, recognition, rendering, rendition, representation, rising action, schema, scheme, score, script, secondary plot, selection, show, showing, signification, sketch, slant, slapstick, specification, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, story, structure, stunt, subject, subplot, suggestion, switch, syllabary, symbol, symptomaticness, tablature, taking a role, thematic development, theme, tone, topic, twist, vignette, vivid description, word painting, writing

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