portraiture

Questions about portraiture

What does portraiture mean?

portraiture means "a word picture of a person's appearance and character". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in portraiture?

portraiture has 3 syllables: por-trai-ture. The stress falls on "por".

What is another word for portraiture?

Close synonyms include portrayal, portrait. 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 portraiture a common word?

portraiture 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.