depiction

depiction
    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}, {characterization},
         {characterisation}]
    2: a representation by picture or portraiture [syn: {depicting},
       {depiction}, {portraying}, {portrayal}]
    3: a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects [syn:
       {delineation}, {depiction}, {limning}, {line drawing}]
    4: representation by drawing or painting etc [syn: {depiction},
       {delineation}, {portrayal}]
    

Depiction \De*pic"tion\, n. [L. depictio.]
   A painting or depicting; a representation.
   [1913 Webster]
    

72 Moby Thesaurus words for "depiction":
      alphabet, art, blueprint, cameo, catalog, cataloging, character,
      character sketch, charactering, characterization, chart,
      choreography, conventional representation, dance notation,
      delineation, demonstration, depictment, description, details,
      diagram, drama, drawing, evocation, exemplification, figuration,
      graphic account, hieroglyphic, iconography, ideogram, illustration,
      image, imagery, imaging, impression, itemization, letter, limning,
      logogram, logograph, map, musical notation, notation,
      particularization, photograph, pictogram, picture, picturization,
      plan, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentment,
      printing, profile, projection, realization, rendering, rendition,
      representation, schema, score, script, sketch, specification,
      syllabary, symbol, tablature, vignette, vivid description,
      word painting, writing