performative

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Being enacted as it is said.
Insincere, inauthentic or disingenuous; done solely or largely as a performance, to produce an impression or enhance one's reputation.

noun

performative more performative most performative performatives

From perform + -ative.

performatory workly illocutionary

preformative preformance preform

nonperformative performative authoritarianism performatively performativeness performative utterance performativism performativity

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