depiction

Noun

depiction (countable and uncountable, plural depictions)

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
   • 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