actlike

comparative more actlike · superlative most actlike

1. Resembling or characteristic of an act or performance.

   For those of you who still think pornography is only an idea, consider the possibility that obscenity law got one thing right. Pornography is more actlike than thoughtlike.

   2005, Sex, Self, and Society, page 339

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   Performativity is thus not a singular ‘act,’ for it is always a reiteration of a norm or set of norms, and to the extent that it acquires an actlike status in the present, it conceals and dissimulates the conventions of which it is a repetition.

   2006, Neil Leach, Camouflage, page 172

   Second, behavior (especially pupil behavior) may be coded in noncontent and nonmode terms provided only that actlike boundaries are established for coding purposes by reference to other boundaries in the system.

   2008, Laurence Siegel, Instruction: Some Contemporary Viewpoints, page 135