portrayal

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: por=tray=al

CIDE DICTIONARY

portrayal, n. 

 The act or process of portraying; description; delineation.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

portrayal

acting, alphabet, aping, art, blueprint, buffoonery, business, cameo, catalog, cataloging, character, character sketch, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, conventional representation, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, description, details, diagram, drama, drawing, dumb show, embodiment, enacting, enactment, evocation, exemplification, figuration, gag, graphic account, ham, hammy acting, head, hieroglyphic, hoke, hokum, iconography, ideogram, illustration, image, imagery, imaging, imitation, impersonation, impression, incarnation, itemization, letter, limning, logogram, logograph, map, masquerade, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, miniature, mummery, musical notation, notation, overacting, pantomime, pantomiming, particularization, patter, performance, performing, personation, personification, photograph, pictogram, picture, picturization, plan, playacting, playing, portrait, portraiture, posing, prefigurement, presentment, printing, profile, projection, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, schema, score, script, silhouette, sketch, slapstick, specification, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stunt, syllabary, symbol, tablature, taking a role, vignette, vivid description, word painting, writing