depiction

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

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈpɪk.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkʃən

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, 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’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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