Characterization

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Characterization \Char`ac*ter*i*za"tion\, n.
     The act or process of characterizing.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  characterization
       n 1: 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" [syn: {word picture}, {word-painting},
             {delineation}, {depiction}, {picture}, {characterisation}]
       2: the act of describing distinctive characteristics or
          essential features; "the media's characterization of Al
          Gore as a nerd" [syn: {characterisation}]
       3: acting the part of a character on stage; dramaticially
          representing the character by speech and action and
          gesture [syn: {portrayal}, {enactment}, {personation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  182 Moby Thesaurus words for "characterization":
     acting, action, alphabet, anagnorisis, angle, aping,
     architectonics, architecture, argument, art, atmosphere,
     background, blueprint, buffoonery, business, cameo, catalog,
     cataloging, catastrophe, character, character sketch, charactering,
     chart, choreography, color, complication, continuity, contrivance,
     conventional representation, dance notation, definition,
     delineation, demonstration, denomination, denotation, denouement,
     depiction, depictment, description, design, designation, details,
     development, device, diagram, differentiation, disclosure,
     distinction, drama, drawing, dumb show, embodiment, enacting,
     enactment, episode, evocation, exemplification, expression, fable,
     falling action, figuration, fingering, gag, gimmick,
     graphic account, ham, hammy acting, hieroglyphic, hint, hoke,
     hokum, iconography, identification, ideogram, illustration, image,
     imagery, imaging, imitation, impersonation, impression,
     incarnation, incident, indication, indicativeness, itemization,
     letter, limning, line, local color, logogram, logograph,
     manifestation, map, masquerade, meaning, mimesis, mimicking,
     mimicry, miming, mood, motif, movement, mummery, musical notation,
     mythos, naming, notation, overacting, pantomime, pantomiming,
     particularization, patter, performance, performing, peripeteia,
     personation, personification, photograph, picking out, pictogram,
     picture, picturization, plan, playacting, playing, plot, pointing,
     pointing out, pointing to, portrait, portraiture, portrayal,
     posing, prefigurement, presentment, printing, profile, projection,
     realization, recognition, rendering, rendition, representation,
     rising action, schema, scheme, score, script, secondary plot,
     selection, show, showing, signification, sketch, slant, slapstick,
     specification, stage business, stage directions, stage presence,
     story, structure, stunt, subject, subplot, suggestion, switch,
     syllabary, symbol, symptomaticness, tablature, taking a role,
     thematic development, theme, tone, topic, twist, vignette,
     vivid description, word painting, writing