a

: an act of describing

specifically : discourse intended to give a mental image of something experienced

beautiful beyond description

gave an accurate description of what he saw

b

: a statement or account giving the characteristics of someone or something : a descriptive statement or account

The review was little more than a description of the film's plot.

2

: kind or character especially as determined by salient (see SALIENT entry 1 sense 3b) features

someone fitting the suspect's description

had toys of every description

opposed to any tax of so radical a description