performative

perform +‎ -ative

performative (comparative more performative, superlative most performative)

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.
   • 2002, Anthony Kubiak, Agitated States: Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty, →ISBN:

     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.

• performativity

performative (plural performatives)

1. A performative utterance.

• workly

• preformative

performative

1. feminine singular of performatif

performative

1. inflection of performativ:
   1. strong and mixed nominative and accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative and accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine and neuter singular

performative

1. feminine plural of performativo