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depiction

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Etymology

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From French dépiction , from Latin dēpictiō . By surface analysis, depict +‎ -ion .

Pronunciation

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Noun

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depiction (countable and uncountable , plural depictions )

  1. (countable ) A lifelike image of something, either verbal or visual.
    • 2005 May 23, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism‎[1] , Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 182:
      If Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999.
  2. (countable ) A drawing or painting.
  3. (countable ) A representation.
  4. (uncountable ) The act of depicting.
    • 1950, Max Meldrum, The Science of Appearances, The Shepherd Press, page 12:
      It is nevertheless true that, whereas the teaching of music and literature is established on a scientific basis, the art of depiction is still taught in a primitive and inefficient way.
    • 1973, Daniel W. Doerksen, Conflict and Resolution in George Herbert's The Temple, University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 108:
      But since "realism" or representational depiction is itself a mode of art, it can never escape some degree of formal removal from the raw data of experience; [...]
    • 2017, Simon Grennan, "[[Drawing, Depicting and Imagining] Drawing’s Affordances] Depiction", in A Theory of Narrative Drawing (Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels), Palgrave Macmillan, published 2019, →ISBN, page 48:
      As previously described, depiction is a unique type of visual representation defined by both seeing the activities/marks that constitute the depiction whilst also seeing the object of the depiction.

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Translations

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lifelike image — see also representation,‎ portrait,‎ description
drawing or painting — see also illustration
representation — see also representation,‎ characterization

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