different between performativity vs performative

English

Etymology

performative +? -ity

Noun

performativity (countable and uncountable, plural performativities)

1. (philosophy) The capacity of language and expressive actions to perform a type of being.
2. The quality of being performative.

Translations

English

Etymology

perform +? -ative

Adjective

performative (comparative more performative, superlative most performative)

1. (philosophy, linguistics) Being enacted as it is said.
2. Being done as a performance in order to create an impression.
   • 2013, Martha McCaughey, Michael D. Ayers, Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice (page 200)

     With the danger of science becoming purely “performative” (Lyotard 1984), not seeking any pretense of “truth” but simply performing a service for those in charge while still occupying its decision-making role in a technocratically dominated political sphere […]

Synonyms

• performatory
• workly

Derived terms

Noun

performative (plural performatives)

1. A performative utterance.
   • 2011, Phyllis Kaburise, Speech Act Theory and Communication: A Univen Study (page 77)

     The distinction between constatives and performatives is one of the distinctions that he starts questioning.

Further reading

• performative utterance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• performativity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• preformative

French

Adjective

performative

1. feminine singular of performatif

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

performative

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

Italian

Adjective

performative

1. feminine plural of performativo