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  • representation

noun as in description

Strongest matches

depiction , image , portrayal

Strong matches

adumbration , copy , delegation , delineation , design , duplicate , enactment , exhibition , illustration , imitation , impersonation , impression , likeness , narration , personification , reproduction

noun as in likeness

image , portrayal

account , chart , delegation , diagram , effigy , embodiment , graph , icon , illustration , map , model , picture , protest , sample , sketch , statement , symbol

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Example sentences.

It was a metaphorical statement of giving and withdrawing consent for a show rooted in a literal representation of Coel being assaulted.

The mathematically manipulated results are passed on and augmented through the stages, finally producing an integrated representation of a face.

I hope this list—a representation of the most consequential changes taking places in our world—is similarly useful for you.

“Given the moment we are in, I can only hope our institutions really understand what this failure of representation means to our city,” he said.

The voters don’t want to have an elected city attorney on the, and representation said, that’s fine.

With all that said, representation of each of these respective communities has increased in the new Congress.

As this excellent piece in Mother Jones describes, however, Holsey had outrageously poor representation during his trial.

During that time days, Livvix went through court hearings without legal representation.

What do you think prompted the change in comic book representation of LGBTQ characters?

Barbie is an unrealistic, unhealthy, insulting representation of female appearance.

With less intelligent children traces of this tendency to take pictorial representation for reality may appear as late as four.

As observation widens and grows finer, the first bald representation becomes fuller and more life-like.

The child now aims at constructing a particular linear representation, that of a man, a horse, or what not.

He had heard it hinted that allowing the colonies representation in Parliament would be a simple plan for making taxes legal.

But sufficient can be discerned for the grasping of the idea, which seems to be a representation of the Nativity.

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Words related to representation are not direct synonyms, but are associated with the word representation . Browse related words to learn more about word associations.

noun as in coming into sight

  • actualization
  • introduction
  • manifestation
  • materialization
  • presentation

noun as in creation meant to communicate or appeal to senses or mind

  • abstraction
  • description
  • illustration
  • pictorialization
  • symbolization

noun as in personal interest

  • countenance
  • encouragement
  • furtherance
  • recommendation

noun as in funny drawing, often with dialogue or caption

  • comic strip

noun as in statement of disagreement, discontent

  • dissatisfaction
  • expostulation
  • fault-finding
  • protestation
  • remonstrance
  • remonstration

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On this page you'll find 123 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to representation, such as: depiction, image, portrayal, adumbration, copy, and delegation.

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Synonyms of represented

  • as in drawn
  • as in described
  • as in depicted
  • as in symbolized
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Thesaurus Definition of represented

 (Entry 1 of 2)

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • illustrative
  • photographic
  • illustrational
  • iconographical
  • iconographic
  • pictographic
  • ideographic
  • ideogrammic
  • hieroglyphical
  • hieroglyphic
  • ideogrammatic

represented

Thesaurus Definition of represented  (Entry 2 of 2)

  • characterized
  • categorized
  • charactered
  • pigeonholed
  • distinguished
  • individualized
  • particularized
  • illustrated
  • silhouetted
  • caricatured
  • emblematized
  • exemplified
  • personified
  • objectified
  • personalized
  • materialized

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