- 1the way that a writer makes characters in a book or play seem real a work of comic brilliance and masterly characterization The movie is worth seeing for its fine characterizations.
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- 2(formal) the way in which someone or something is described or defined synonym portrayal the characterization of physics as the study of simplicity
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