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Synonyms for Characterization
ˌkær ɪk tər əˈzeɪ ʃənchar·ac·ter·i·za·tion
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Princeton's WordNet
word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, picture, characterization, characterisationnoun
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"
Synonyms:
personation, portrayal, flick, portraying, mental picture, film, moving picture, depicting, impression, depiction, limning, characterization, picture, motion-picture show, video, ikon, movie, scene, delineation, characterisation, word-painting, pic, line drawing, exposure, image, photo, motion picture, pictorial matter, photograph, icon, enactment, painting, word picture, moving-picture show, picture showcharacterization, characterisationnoun
the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
"the media's characterization of Al Gore as a nerd"
Synonyms:
characterization, depiction, characterisation, personation, word-painting, delineation, word picture, portrayal, enactment, pictureportrayal, characterization, enactment, personationnoun
acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture
Synonyms:
portraiture, portrayal, personation, characterisation, portraying, enactment, depiction, word-painting, depicting, characterization, portrait, act, passage, impersonation, word picture, picture, delineation
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
characterizationnoun
Synonyms:
designation (of properties), specification
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "characterization":
characterisation, characterizing, characterize, qualification, profiling, identification, fingerprinting
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#156 | video | |
#304 | photo | |
#376 | image | |
#490 | movie | |
#552 | act | |
#631 | picture | |
#677 | film | |
#2368 | icon | |
#2402 | pic | |
#2712 | scene | |
#2878 | exposure | |
#3212 | identification | |
#3480 | painting | |
#5723 | passage | |
#5732 | photograph | |
#5895 | portrait | |
#7353 | impression | |
#8406 | qualification | |
#9475 | characterization | |
#14950 | profiling | |
#16465 | flick | |
#16823 | enactment | |
#17004 | characterize | |
#21407 | depicting | |
#25588 | depiction | |
#25922 | portrayal | |
#31397 | characterisation | |
#32161 | characterizing | |
#37013 | delineation | |
#38342 | portraying | |
#38393 | fingerprinting | |
#43107 | portraiture | |
#44018 | ikon | |
#52549 | impersonation |
How to use Characterization in a sentence?
Was my lab kind of freewheeling and fun? Yes, you know, was the word retarded used sometimes, yes. That there was sort of outright sexism to people, no, and I certainly wouldn’t have tolerated that if that was the case so I do resist certainly a locker room atmosphere – I resist that characterization. Was it light and banter-full and people joked around and made fun of each other sometimes, yes, but in a very mutual kind of way.
Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto p. 74 (pb 93):
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.
This was the first characterization of the evidence we had seen, and it was stunning.
Look, I just think we got a lot of really good candidates out there and they're making their case and I don't, I don't put a whole lot in terms of labels, i'm not going to comment on Bernie's characterization of who or what it is. Bernie Sanders's sincere about what Bernie Sanders, what Bernie Sanders thinks and I think Bernie Sanders should go out and say it.
I think that is an over-characterization of every military leader, and I don't think they've all provided their point of view on what their advice is, the president welcomed the advice, and at times disagreement, about what the appropriate path forward would be.
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