performativity en · NOUN
Etymology
From performative + -ity.
Meanings
- (countable, uncountable) The capacity of language and expressive actions to perform a type of being.
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(countable, uncountable) The quality of being performative.
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.
2002, Anthony Kubiak, Agitated States: Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty, →ISBN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| performativities | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (9)
bg перформативност (Translations) · cs performativita (Translations) · fr performativité (Translations) · ko 수행성 (Translations) · oc performativitat (Translations) · sv performativitet (Translations) · it performatività (Translations) · es performatividad (Translations) · de Performativität (Translations)