Synonyms for depiction

Grammar : Noun

Spell : dih-pik-shuh n

Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈpɪk ʃən

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Définition of depiction

Origin : 1680s, from French depiction, from Late Latin depictionem (nominative depictio) "painting, description," noun of action from Latin depictus (see depict).

noun description, rendering

Example sentences :

Exactitude marks her time, her scene and her depiction of passions and emotions.
Extract from : « Why we should read » by S. P. B. Mais

Photography is shown to be the one radical advance in depiction since art began.
Extract from : « Inventors at Work » by George Iles

They are too hollow and immaterial to appear even as a depiction of form.
Extract from : « Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning » by Willard Huntington Wright

But the method of depiction is very different from that of Tolstoi.
Extract from : « The Forerunners » by Romain Rolland

The depiction of evil in due proportion and with such limitations belongs to the accurate representation of human character.
Extract from : « A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution » by C. M. Williams

Their initial mistake was in supposing that the depiction of mental states would recall the causes of those states.
Extract from : « Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning » by Willard Huntington Wright

The depiction of the human form halted at approximation.282 Drawing became more arbitrary.
Extract from : « Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning » by Willard Huntington Wright

Now the trouble with modern photography is that it is altogether too lavish in its depiction of distances.
Extract from : « The Land of Footprints » by Stewart Edward White

I should like the reader to note how complete is Mr. Eliot's depiction of our contemporary condition.
Extract from : « Instigations » by Ezra Pound

But the depiction is little more than picture-writing, mere copies of traditional groups.
Extract from : « The Legacy of Greece » by Various

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