Performative

Synonyms for "performative" (3 found)

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Adjective(1 words)

performatory

Strong matches (1)

workly

Related words (1)

Adjective(1 words)

workly

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Synonyms

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workly

Related terms

3 entries

preform preformance preformative

derived

7 entries

nonperformative performative authoritarianism performative utterance performatively performativeness performativism performativity

derived from

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perform

related to

3 entries

enact performative utterance performativity

Translations

3 translations across 1 languages.

Spanish

3 entries

performativo adj (performatory)
performántico adj (performatory)
performático adj (performatory)

Sample sentences

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It's entirely performative, if you ask me.

Source: tatoeba (10384509)

Will Tebboune be forced into performative politics?

Source: tatoeba (10838480)

Saying "I do" as part of a wedding ceremony is performative, enacting a marriage.

Source: wiktionary

Thus in the example: 'By saying “I do” I was marrying her', the performative 'I do' is a means to the end of marriage. Here 'saying' is used in the sense in which it takes inverted commas and is using words or language, a phatic and not[…]

Source: wiktionary

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