Other forms: depictions
A depiction is a showing of something in a picture or in words. An accurate depiction, the depiction of violence, a fair depiction.
It is the standard word in arguments about what films and books show, where the defence is always that depiction is not endorsement. It covers writing as well as pictures, despite the paint in its Latin root.
1noundepictionA showing of something in a picture or in words.
“The novel's depiction of life in a small fishing village is very moving.”
depiction is a showing.
Latin depictio comes from depingere, to paint, from de- plus pingere, to paint.
Latin
dēpictiō
French
dépiction
English, today
depiction
From French dépiction, from Latin dēpictiō. by surface analysis, depict + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA