Sekirov Dictionary

performative

adjective 2
noun 1
forms 3

adjective2

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Being enacted as it is said.
- Saying "I do" as part of a wedding ceremony is performative, enacting a marriage.
•
Insincere, inauthentic or disingenuous; done solely or largely as a performance, to produce an impression or enhance one's reputation.
- We were beginning to suspect that her ethical qualms were sometimes performative, as the urgent need for fairness and justice seemed to apply to some people but not to others.

noun1

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A performative utterance.
- The distinction between constatives and performatives is one of the distinctions that he starts questioning. — 2011

forms

performatives · more performative · most performative

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