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performativity

noun

Etymology

From performative + -ity.

  1. derived from *promo-✻
  2. derived from *frumjaną✻
  3. derived from *frummjan✻
  4. derived from parfornir
  5. derived from performer
  6. inherited from parformen
  7. suffixed as performative — “perform + ative”
  8. suffixed as performativity — “performative + ity”

Definitions

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

  2. The quality of being performative.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for performativity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA