delineation

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of delineating; depiction.
2. (countable, uncountable)An image of the outline of an object.
3. (countable, uncountable)A graphic verbal description.

   “After all, the English hostel owes much of its charms to Chaucer; our associations are of his haunting pictures—his delicate Lady Prioress, his comely young squire, with their pleasant interchange of tale and legend, rise upon the mind's eye in all the fascination of his vivid delineations.”