1. A graphic or vivid verbal description
   - word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, picture, characterization 
2. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
   "the media's characterisation of Al Gore as a nerd"
   - characterization

Derived forms: characterisations

See also: characterise [Brit]

Type of: description, verbal description

Encyclopedia: Characterisation

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• linguistic atlas
• linguistic communication
• linguistic competence
• linguistic context
• linguistic geography
• linguistic performance
• linguistic process
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• linguistic relation
• linguistic rule
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• linguistic universal
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• liniment
• linin
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