performative

About 0.86 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Enacting or performing (an act) by articulating it.

   Saying "I do" as part of a wedding ceremony is performative, enacting a marriage.

2. adjective Relating to or characterized by (artistic) performance.
3. adjective Insincere, inauthentic or disingenuous; done solely or largely as a performance, to produce an impression or enhance one's reputation.
4. noun A performative utterance.

Similar words

performatory exercitive prothesized prophoric philodramatic purported pseudophilosophical phronetic pragmatical figurative

Often followed by

and utterances utterance acts nature act aspects verbs in

Word family

performatives