Dictionary

depiction en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• [dɪˈpɪkʃən] ~ [dɪˈpɪkʃn̩] weak vowel distinction
• [dəˈpɪkʃən] ~ [dəˈpɪkʃn̩] weak vowel merger
• /dəˈpɪkʃən/ weak vowel merger
• (Southern-England) audio
• /dɪˈpɪkʃən/ weak vowel distinction

Etymology

From French dépiction, from Latin dēpictiō. By surface analysis, depict + -ion.

Meanings

1. (countable) A lifelike image of something, either verbal or visual.
   • 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:
2. (countable) A drawing or painting.
3. (countable) A representation.
4. (uncountable) The act of depicting.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

Forms

Deriveds

depictional · redepiction

Relateds

depict

Translations (34)

fi kuvaus (lifelike image) · de Abbildung (lifelike image) · pl ilustracja (drawing or painting) · nl afbeelding (drawing or painting) · hi निरूपण (representation) · pl przedstawienie (lifelike image) · hi चित्र (drawing or painting) · fr représentation (lifelike image) · bn বর্ণনা (lifelike image) · de Schilderung (representation) · ru изображе́ние (lifelike image) · lv attēlojums (representation) · de Darstellung (lifelike image) · pt ilustração (drawing or painting) · pl zobrazowanie (lifelike image) · ota تصویر (drawing or painting) · fi kuva (drawing or painting) · it descrizione (lifelike image) · pt retrato (lifelike image) · gl representación (lifelike image) · pl przedstawienie (representation) · nl afbeelding (lifelike image) · ca representació (lifelike image) · fr dépiction (drawing or painting) · es plasmación (representation) · nb avbildning (lifelike image) · it dipinto (lifelike image) · hu ábrázolás (representation) · el απεικόνιση (lifelike image) · fi kuvaus (representation) · da afbildning (lifelike image) · ro reprezentare (lifelike image) · hi चित्रण (representation) · nl uitbeelding (lifelike image)