PLAYACTING

 Dictionary entry overview: What does playacting mean? 

• PLAYACTING (noun)
  The noun PLAYACTING has 1 sense:

1. the performance of a part or role in a drama

  Familiarity information: PLAYACTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLAYACTING (noun)

Meaning:

The performance of a part or role in a drama

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

acting; performing; playacting; playing

Hypernyms ("playacting" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

performing arts (arts or skills that require public performance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "playacting"):

characterization; enactment; personation; portrayal (acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture)

reenactment (performing a role in an event that occurred at an earlier time)

heroics (ostentatious or vainglorious or extravagant or melodramatic conduct)

hamming; overacting (poor acting by a ham actor)

skit (a short theatrical episode)

roleplaying (acting a particular role (as in psychotherapy))

business; byplay; stage business (incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect)

dumb show; mime; pantomime (a performance using gestures and body movements without words)

method; method acting (an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed)

impersonation; personation (imitating the mannerisms of another person)

Holonyms ("playacting" is a part of...):

performance (the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment)