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characterization has 9 distinct synonyms spread across 3 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a graphic or vivid verbal description
“too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures”
the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
“the media's characterization of Al Gore as a nerd”
acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for characterization come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.