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Iconography

The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.

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Icon 76% connected

An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.

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Image 76% connected

An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a v…

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Picture 76% connected

The art of painting; representation by painting.

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Amplification noun · 78% connection

The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrati…

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Characterisation noun · 78% connection

a graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing…

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Characterization noun · 78% connection

a graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing…

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Delineation noun · 78% connection

The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of…

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Depicting noun · 78% connection

a representation by picture or portraiture

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Depiction noun · 78% connection

a representation by picture or portraiture

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Description noun · 78% connection

A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a…

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Fancy noun · 78% connection

The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying su…

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Figure noun · 78% connection

A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial languag…

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Graphic adjective · 78% connection

evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid d…

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High-colored adjective · 78% connection

Vivid; strong or forcible in representation; hence, exaggerated; as, high-colored description.

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Iconical adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to, or consisting of, images, pictures, or representations of any kind.

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Iconism noun · 78% connection

The formation of a figure, representation, or semblance; a delineation or description.

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Iconolatry noun · 78% connection

The worship of images as symbols; -- distinguished from idolatry, the worship of images themselves.

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Iconology noun · 78% connection

The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography.

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Iconomical adjective · 78% connection

Opposed to pictures or images as objects of worship.

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Illustrate verb · 78% connection

To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance.

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Imagery noun · 78% connection

The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.

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