Depiction Meaning
/dɪˈpɪkʃən/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA lifelike image of something, either verbal or visual.
nounA drawing or painting.
Sentence Examples
Dickens' thoughts come across along with the vivid depiction of old London.
The movie is a harrowing depiction of life in an urban slum.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Her painting offers a vivid ____ of a bustling farmer's market.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Dickens' thoughts come across along with the vivid ____ of old London.
Word Origin & History
From French dépiction, from Latin dēpictiō. By surface analysis, depict + -ion.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 2005 May 23, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 182:
"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."
— 1950, Max Meldrum, The Science of Appearances, The Shepherd Press, page 12:
"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; […]"
— 1973, Daniel W. Doerksen, Conflict and Resolution in George Herbert's The Temple, University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 108:
"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."
— 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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Her painting offers a vivid ____ of a bustling farmer's market.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Dickens' thoughts come across along with the vivid ____ of old London.