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portrayal
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun portrayal has 5 senses
- portrayal(n = noun.communication) portrait, portraiture - a word picture of a person's appearance and character; Array is a kind of characterisation, characterization, delineation, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture
- portrayal(n = noun.act) characterization, enactment, personation - 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
- portrayal(n = noun.cognition) depicting, depiction, portraying - a representation by picture or portraiture; Array is a kind of representational process
- portrayal(n = noun.artifact) portrait - any likeness of a person, in any medium; "the photographer made excellent portraits" has particulars: half-length, self-portrait
- portrayal(n = noun.act) delineation, depiction - representation by drawing or painting etc; Array is a kind of pictorial representation, picturing
Derived form verb portray1
has particulars: impression, character, part, persona, role, theatrical role
Derived form verb portray3
has particulars: mirror
Derived form verb portray2
is a kind of likeness, semblance
has particulars: portraiture
Derived form verb portray4
CIDE DICTIONARY
portrayal, n.
The act or process of portraying; description; delineation. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
portrayal
acting, alphabet, aping, art, blueprint, buffoonery, business, cameo, catalog, cataloging, character, character sketch, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, conventional representation, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, description, details, diagram, drama, drawing, dumb show, embodiment, enacting, enactment, evocation, exemplification, figuration, gag, graphic account, ham, hammy acting, head, hieroglyphic, hoke, hokum, iconography, ideogram, illustration, image, imagery, imaging, imitation, impersonation, impression, incarnation, itemization, letter, limning, logogram, logograph, map, masquerade, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, miniature, mummery, musical notation, notation, overacting, pantomime, pantomiming, particularization, patter, performance, performing, personation, personification, photograph, pictogram, picture, picturization, plan, playacting, playing, portrait, portraiture, posing, prefigurement, presentment, printing, profile, projection, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, schema, score, script, silhouette, sketch, slapstick, specification, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stunt, syllabary, symbol, tablature, taking a role, vignette, vivid description, word painting, writing
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