depiction

1. (countable) A lifelike image of something, either verbal or visual.Examples: "If Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999."countable

2. (countable) A drawing or painting.countable

3. (countable) A representation.countable

4. (uncountable) The act of depicting.Examples: "It is nevertheless true that, whereas the teaching of music and literature is established on a scientific basis, the art of depiction is still taught in a primitive and inefficient way."; "But since "realism" or representational depiction is itself a mode of art, it can never escape some degree of formal removal from the raw data of experience; […]"; "As previously described, depiction is a unique type of visual representation defined by both seeing the activities/marks that constitute the depiction whilst also seeing the object of the depiction."uncountable