Portrayal vs Interpretation - What's the difference?
portrayal | interpretation |
The act of portraying.
The result of portraying; a representation, description, or portrait.
* 1866, Charlotte Yonge, The Dove in the Eagle's Nest
* 1909, Arnold Bennett, Literary Taste
(countable) An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.
(countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning .
(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.
As nouns the difference between portrayal and interpretation
is that portrayal is the act of portraying while interpretation is interpretation.portrayal
English
Noun
(en noun)- He had already designed the portrayal of his father as the old white king, and himself as the young white king, in a series of woodcuts illustrating the narrative which culminated in the one romance of his life, ...
- For days afterwards you will not be able to look upon a child without recalling Lamb's portrayal of the grace of childhood.
interpretation
English
Noun
- the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.
- Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.''