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 Definitions for characterization: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Characterization \Char`ac*ter*i*za"tion\, n.
The act or process of characterizing.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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
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