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performative

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Definitions

  1. Being enacted as it is said.

Word origin

From perform + -ative.

Used in a sentence

  • Saying "I do" as part of a wedding ceremony is performative, enacting a marriage.
  • We were beginning to suspect that her ethical qualms were sometimes performative, as the urgent need for fairness and justice seemed to apply to some people but not to others.
  • The Harambe meme soon became the perfect parody of the sentimentality and absurd priorities of Western liberal performative politics and the online mass hysteria that often characterized it.

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