Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

performativity

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.70 in modern English

Syllables: per-for-ma-tiv-i-ty
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The capacity of language and expressive actions to perform a type of being.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The quality of being performative.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Keeping both American theater and its double within the sight lines, I would like to look at MPD as a pathology in which both both performativity and social performance are outstripped by a mise-en-scène that veers past the merely performative and dangerously close to theater itself, threatening to erase the differences in its very misappearance."

Etymology

From performative + -ity.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: performative

Usage

Inflected Forms

performativities (plural)

Synonyms

performatism performativism

Questions

What does performativity mean?: The capacity of language and expressive actions to perform a type of being.
Where does performativity come from?: From performative + -ity.

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