Depiction vs Interpretation - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between depiction and interpretation

is that depiction is a lifelike image of something, either verbal or visual while interpretation is interpretation.

(en noun)

a lifelike image of something, either verbal or visual

a drawing or painting

(countable) An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.

the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.

(countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning .

Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.''

(uncountable) The power of explaining.

(countable) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.

(countable) An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.

(countable, physics) An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.

(countable, logic, model theory) An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.

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