characterisation

A noun referring to the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features, or a graphic and vivid verbal description.

• 🇨🇳指描述某人或某物的显著特征、本质特点的行为或过程，也指生动形象的描述或刻画，或对人物性格的塑造。

1. Vivid description B2 formal

   A graphic or vivid verbal description of someone or something.

   • The author's characterisation of the villain was chillingly accurate.
   • Her characterisation of the city as a 'concrete jungle' was memorable.
   • The journalist's characterisation of the event was both vivid and insightful.

   🇨🇳生动描写

   同义词: delineationdepictionpictureportrayalrepresentationsketch

2. Description of features B2 formal

   The act of describing the distinctive characteristics or essential features of a person, place, or thing.

   • The characterisation of the disease took years of research.
   • His characterisation of the problem as 'systemic' was widely accepted.
   • The report includes a detailed characterisation of the local ecosystem.

   🇨🇳特征描述

   同义词: delineationdepictiondescriptionportrayalrepresentation

• characterisations plural form
• characterisations' possessive plural form
• characterisation's possessive singular form