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nonactable en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + actable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not actable.
    • This distinction between nonactable and actable actions echoes our earlier distinction between showing and telling. 1999, Rebecca Mcclanahan, Word Painting:
    • In classifying epics, in effect, as nonactable forms of tragedy, Aristotle was following in the footsteps of Plato in the Theaetetus, where Socrates remarks that the chief poets in the two kinds of poetry are Epicharmus in comedy and Homer in tragedy. 1993, Henry Ansgar Kelly, Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages, page 2:
    • It is time to stop paying attention to nonactable suggestions and begin to define the character. 2010, Maura Vaughn, The Anatomy of a Choice: An Actor's Guide to Text Analysis: