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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