characterization
nounHow many syllables in characterization?
There are 6 syllables in the word characterization.How to pronounce characterization:
Definition of characterization:
- characterization (noun):
- the act of characterizing
- a graphic or vivid verbal description.
- a word or short phrase used to describe someone or something
- the artistic representation (as in fiction or drama) of human character or motives
Synonyms for characterization:
acting
characterisation
delineation
depiction
enacting
enactment
epithet
interpretation
performance
performing
personation
picture
playing
portrait
portraiture
portrayal
representation
take
theatre
verbal description
word picture
word-painting
Antonyms for characterization:
cipher
cypher
mystery
nobody
nonentity
unknown
Here are some other common 6-syllable words.
- mycodermatitis
- practicability
- sesquipedalian
- unfashionable
- reconciliation
- paraphernalia
- materialism
- achievability
- pistanthrophobia
- unmentionable
- incommunicable
- unsophisticated
- interrelationship
- categorically
- mucoperiosteum
- paleontologist
- integumentary
- diametrically
- Poetry For Neanderthals
- catastrophically
- individually
- equalitarian
- undecipherable
- inextinguishable
- ceruminolytic
- fictionality
- nonconfrontational
- biodegradable
- extracurricular
- idiosyncratic
- satisfactorily
- encyclopedia
- superficiality
- iridocyclitis
- unequivocally
- reliability
- attainability
- instrumentality
- cataclysmically
- unquestionably
- verisimilitude
- unverifiable
- peculiarities
- uncontaminated
- authoritarian
- realistically
- personification
- appreciatively
- disciplinarian
- discombobulated
- … more
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