portraying

Definitions of portraying
  1. noun
    a representation by picture or portraiture
    synonyms: depicting, depiction, portrayal
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    types:
    mirror
    a faithful depiction or reflection
    type of:
    representational process
    any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else
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