Definition of Performative

1. Adjective. Being enacted as it is said. ¹

2. Noun. A performative utterance. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Performative

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Performative

performance bonds
performance capability
performance management
performance management system
performance management systems
performance measurement system
performance measurement systems
performance metric
performance monitoring system
performance monitoring systems
performance poetry
performance test
performances
performant
performantly
performative
performative utterance
performatives
performativities
performativity
performatory
performaunce
performed
performer
performers
performic
performic acid
performic acid reaction
performing
performing art

Literary usage of Performative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Archiprix Internationalby Henk van der Veen by Henk van der Veen (2005)
"vertically-oriented, differentiated, non-homogeneous structural and spatial layouts 89 >- Performative Morphologies the Vertical Helix DESIGNED BY: Neri ..."

2. The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communicationby Heather A. Horst, Daniel Miller by Heather A. Horst, Daniel Miller (2006)
"It was the first serious study of both the necessity of performative ... This facility for performative language has more recently become better known ..."

3. The Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Proceedings by Yusuf Pisan, SIGART. (2005)
"Current Research Research into the rules of musical emotion is divided largely between two camps, the structural and the performative. ..."

4. The Queen Mary Psalter: A Study of Affect and Audience by Anne Rudloff Stanton (2001)
"Coleman writes about texts, and uses some medieval paintings as depictions of the settings for performative, aural reading. She does not address in any ..."

5. The Maecenas And The Madrigalist: Patrons, Patronage, And The Origins Of The by Anthony M. Cummings (2004)
"Under such circumstances, compositional or performative practices that clearly profiled the text and permitted the exquisite refinements of Petrarchan and ..."

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