Synonyms of depiction

depiction

noun

di-ˈpik-shən 

as in description

a vivid representation in words of someone or something

the set piece of the novel is a depiction of the battle that makes readers feel like they were there

Synonyms & Similar Words

• description
• portrait
• portrayal
• picture
• tale
• sketch
• definition
• rendering
• delineation
• account
• vignette
• narrative
• illustration
• portraiture
• story
• explanation
• chronicle
• report
• anecdote
• demonstration
• yarn
• exposition
• clarification
• exemplification
• explication
• elucidation

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of depiction

The conflict is hardly the first involving a living celebrity objecting to a fictional depiction. — Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026

King drops elephants through the air, erects wobbly Towers of Babel, lets characters run amok with depictions of her own pencils, and then summons a hand with a knife to clear a clean space on the page. — Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026

On one wall, the ambassador installed Marc Lipp’s Fight Fight Fight, a depiction of Trump with a bloody ear and raised fist painted by one of the president’s favorite Palm Beach watercolorists. — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026

In her depiction of the exhausting vigilance this reality required, through a second-person voice cannily implicating her reader, Rankine created a new language to identify a problem as old as the United States. — Charles Finch, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026