📖 Definitions of "Performative"
noun
- 1
A performative utterance.
adjective
- 1
Being enacted as it is said.
"An example of a performative utterance would be "I name this boat Alfred"."
- 2
Being done as a performance in order to create an impression.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Performative"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| performatorynoun | Synonym of performative. |
| exercitivenoun | (pragmatics, hermeneutics) A speech act in which a decision is made regarding action; examples include orders and grants of permission. |
| prothesized | (linguistics) Affected by prothesis. |
| prophoric | enunciative |
| philodramaticnoun | Having a love of dramatic performances. |
| purported | Said or claimed by some individuals to be real or true or to have happened, although this may not be the case. |
| pseudophilosophical | Apparently, but not actually, philosophical; having pretensions to philosophy. |
| phronetic | Relating to phronesis. |
| pragmatical | Synonym of pragmatic (“practical”). |
| figurative | Of use as a metaphor, simile, metonym or other figure of speech, as opposed to literal; using figures. |
| postsyntactic | (linguistics) Formed or occurring after the syntactic stage. |
| pythonic | Of or pertaining to, or resembling, a python (“large constricting snake of the family Pythonidae”); pythonlike. |
| phonophoric | (linguistics) Sound-bearing; said of certain characters in otherwise ideographic languages. |
| apophanticnoun | Involving a declaration, statement, or proposition. |
| speakerlynoun | Befitting a speaker or orator. |
| logophoric | (linguistics, of a pronoun) Exhibiting the property of a logophor. |
| literall | Obsolete form of literal. [Exactly as stated; read or understood without interpretation; according to the letter; not figurative or metaphorical; following the letter or exact words; not taking liberties; etymonic rather than idiomatic.] |
| pragmatiquenoun | Obsolete form of pragmatic. [Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.] |
| programmatical | programmatic |
| translative | (linguistics) Of, or relating to the translative case. |
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