performativity

English

performative +‎ -ity

performativity (countable and uncountable, plural performativities)

(philosophy) The capacity of language and expressive actions to perform a type of being.
The quality of being performative.
- 2002, Anthony Kubiak, Agitated States: Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty, →ISBN:
  Keeping both American theater and its double within the sight lines, I would like to look at MPD as a pathology in which both both performativity and social performance are outstripped by a mise-en-scène that veers past the merely performative and dangerously close to theater itself, threatening to erase the differences in its very misappearance.