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   per·for·ma·tive

   /pərˈfôrmədiv/

   adjective

   • 1. relating to or of the nature of dramatic or artistic performance: "films which push past the limits of current performative trends"
   • ▪ characterized by the performance of a social or cultural role: "many feminist theorists have come to stress the contextual and performative aspects of gender"
   • ▪ relating to or denoting an utterance by means of which the speaker performs a particular act (e.g. I bet, I apologize, I promise): "performative utterances do not merely describe what one is doing; to say the utterance is to do it"

   noun

   • 1. a performative verb, sentence, or utterance: "here statements are not descriptive utterances but performatives"

   Derivatives

   • 1. performativity noun

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