(BrE also characterisation) noun [U,C]
1 the way that a writer makes characters in a book or play seem real:
a work of comic brilliance and masterly characterization * The film is worth seeing for its fine characterizations.
2 (formal) the way in which sb/sth is described or defined:
the characterization of physics as the study of simplicity
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