Portrayal

Quick meaning: Portrayal is a noun meaning The act of portraying.

Meaning

The act of portraying.

More Meanings

1. The result of portraying; a representation, description, or portrait.

Example Sentences

1909, Arnold Bennett, Literary Taste For days afterwards you will not be able to look upon a child without recalling Lamb's portrayal of the grace of childhood.

Images of Dutchness in American visual culture and literature during the nineteenth century differed radically between portrayals of the Netherlands Dutch and those of the American Dutch.

Dickens was the quintessential actor, luxuriating in the portrayal of his idiosyncratic characters. In contrast, more than a characterist, Poe was above all a wonderfully musical reader, […]

1866, Charlotte Yonge, The Dove in the Eagle's Nest He had already designed the portrayal of his father as the old white king, and himself as the young white king, in a series of woodcuts illustrating the narrative which culminated in the one romance of his life, .

Word Forms

• portrayals

Synonyms for portrayal

Depending on context, synonyms include depiction, delineation, portrait, depicting, portraiture, enactment.

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