Usually means: Musical technique illustrating text literally.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word word painting:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. word-painting: Merriam-Webster
  2. word-painting: Vocabulary.com
  3. word-painting, word painting: Wordnik
  4. word painting: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. word-painting, word painting: Dictionary.com
  6. Word painting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. word-painting: Rhymezone
  8. word-painting, word painting: FreeDictionary.org
  9. word-painting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. Word painting, word-painting: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. word painting: Wiktionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. word-painting: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (word painting)

noun:  A visually evocative poem or other piece of writing.
noun:  The act of writing such a piece.
noun:  (music) Program music, or the process of composing it.

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