Enactively

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In an enactive manner; by acting out. not-comparable

    "I was chatting with his director, and he was walking by himself a few yards behind. Suddenly I thought I heard my patient. I was extremely startled, and turned round — and saw it was Dustin thinking to himself, but thinking with his body, thinking enactively, thinking of the young autistic man he had just seen."

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"I was chatting with his director, and he was walking by himself a few yards behind. Suddenly I thought I heard my patient. I was extremely startled, and turned round — and saw it was Dustin thinking to himself, but thinking with his body, thinking enactively, thinking of the young autistic man he had just seen."

Etymology

From enactive + -ly.

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