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Definition of Playacting
1. Noun. The performance of a part or role in a drama.
Generic synonyms: Activity, Performing Arts
Specialized synonyms: Characterization, Enactment, Personation, Portrayal, Impersonation, Personation, Method, Method Acting, Dumb Show, Mime, Pantomime, Business, Byplay, Stage Business, Skit, Hamming, Overacting, Heroics, Reenactment, Roleplaying
Group relationships: Performance
Derivative terms: Act, Act, Act, Perform, Playact, Play, Play
Definition of Playacting
1. Verb. (present participle of playact) ¹
2. Noun. pretence ¹
3. Noun. overdramatic behaviour ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Playacting
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Playacting
Literary usage of Playacting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Social Life of the Chinese: With Some Account of the Religious, Governmental by Justus Doolittle (1865)
"Sports and Plays: Shuttlecock.—Lion pursuing a Ball.— Manoeuvring the
Dragon.—playacting: An Emperor of the Tang Dynasty one of the Gods worshiped by ..."
2. Social life of the Chinese by Justus Doolittle (1866)
"Lion pursuing a Bali.— Manoeuvring the Dragon.—playacting: An Emperor of the Tang
Dynasty one of the Gods worshiped by ..."
3. The Writings of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1894)
"Had a drop, Joe ? " " Why, yes," said Joe, lowering his voice, " he 's left the
Church and went into the playacting. Which the playacting have ..."
4. Social Life of the Chinese: With Some Account of the Religious, Governmental by Justus Doolittle (1865)
"Sports and Plays: Shuttlecock.—Lion pursuing a Ball.— Manoeuvring the
Dragon.—playacting: An Emperor of the Tang Dynasty one of the Gods worshiped by ..."
5. Social life of the Chinese by Justus Doolittle (1866)
"Lion pursuing a Bali.— Manoeuvring the Dragon.—playacting: An Emperor of the Tang
Dynasty one of the Gods worshiped by ..."
6. The Writings of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1894)
"Had a drop, Joe ? " " Why, yes," said Joe, lowering his voice, " he 's left the
Church and went into the playacting. Which the playacting have ..."
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