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Narration vs Description - What's the difference?

narration | description |

Description is a synonym of narration.



As nouns the difference between narration and description

is that narration is the act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating while description is a sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.

narration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
  • That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative.
  • (rhetoric) That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.
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    description

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
  • The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
  • A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
  • (biology) A scientific documentation of a specimen intended to reveal a new species by technically explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other species.
  • The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.

    Synonyms

    * (characteristics) sort, kind, type, variety

    See also

    * synopsis * interpretation

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