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1. A graphic or vivid verbal description
   "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word delineations";
   - word picture, word-painting, depiction, picture, characterization, characterisation [Brit]
    
2. A drawing of the outlines of forms or objects
   - depiction, limning, line drawing
    
3. Representation by drawing or painting etc
   - depiction, portrayal

Derived forms: delineations

Type of: description, drawing, pictorial representation, picturing, verbal description