characterisation

Other forms of characterisation

plural

characterisations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about characterisation

What does characterisation mean?

characterisation means "a graphic or vivid verbal description". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in characterisation?

characterisation has 7 syllables and divides as cha-rac-te-ri-sa-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for characterisation?

Close synonyms include word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, picture. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is characterisation a common word?

characterisation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.