Performativity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Performativity is a noun meaning (philosophy) The capacity of language and expressive actions to perform a type of being.
Meaning
(philosophy) The capacity of language and expressive actions to perform a type of being.
More Meanings
- The quality of being performative.
Example Sentences
Keeping both American theater and its double within the sight lines, I would like to look at MPD as a pathology in which both both performativity and social performance are outstripped by a mise-en-scène that veers past the merely performative and dangerously close to theater itself, threatening to erase the differences in its very misappearance.
Word Forms
- performativities
Synonyms for performativity
Depending on context, synonyms include performatism, performativism.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include performance, performative, performaunce, play-acting, personation, playacting.
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