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portrayal
A	noun
	1	portrayal, characterization, enactment, personation
				acting the part of a character on stage; dramaticially representing the character by speech and action and gesture
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚activity ╚acting; playing; playacting; performing ╚portrayal, characterization, enactment, personation ╚character; role; theatrical role; part; persona ╚impression
	2	depiction, delineation, portrayal
				representation by drawing or painting etc
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚activity ╚representation ╚pictorial representation; picturing ╚depiction, delineation, portrayal ╚portraiture
	3	portrait, portrayal
				any likeness of a person; "the photographer made excellent portraits"
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚artifact; artefact ╚creation ╚representation ╚picture; image; icon; ikon ╚likeness; semblance ╚portrait, portrayal ╚half-length
	4	depicting, depiction, portraying, portrayal
				a representation by picture or portraiture
		Category Tree: psychological feature ╚cognition; knowledge; noesis ╚process; cognitive process; mental process; operation; cognitive operation ╚basic cognitive process ╚representational process ╚depicting, depiction, portraying, portrayal ╚mirror
	5	portrayal, portraiture, portrait
				a word picture of a person's appearance and character
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚message; content; subject matter; substance ╚statement ╚description; verbal description ╚word picture; word-painting; delineation; depiction; picture; characterization; characterisation ╚portrayal, portraiture, portrait

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