Actionist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Actionist is a noun meaning (art, sometimes capitalized) One taking part in the actionism movement.
Meaning
(art, sometimes capitalized) One taking part in the actionism movement.
More Meanings
- (business, obsolete or non-native speakers) A shareholder in a joint-stock company.
- Synonym of activist.
Example Sentences
Generally speaking, the risks to the actionists on the one hand, and to the system against which they take action on the other, are least in the case of nonviolent protest and greatest in the case of nonviolent intervention.
The most radical of all 1960s performers, the Viennese Actionists explored a broad spectrum of transgressions up until the end of the 1960s: sodomy, rape, necrophilia, zoophilia, anthropophagy, self-mutilation, and animal sacrifices.
Word Forms
- actionists
Synonyms for actionist
Depending on context, synonyms include actionary, activist.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include actionism, activism, artivism, actualist, operationist, situationist.
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