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# How to pronounce "performativity" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA**: `/pɛrfɒrmætɪvɪtɪ/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **per·for·ma·ti·vi·ty**

## Meaning & Usage

### NOUN
- The capacity of language and expressive actions to perform a type of being.
- The quality of being performative.
  - *Example*: "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."

### Example Sentences
- "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."
- "performativity of the material so thinking about how can I activate materials and what circumstances can I"
- "And performativity is always a risk."

### Common Phrases
- gender performativity

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "performativity" in real conversation:

### Example 1
*Accent: AUS*
> "animals thanks so much Nicole that's wonderful so Peter Sharp's research over performativity of the material so thinking about how can I activate materials and what circumstances can I"
- **Watch at 57:58**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78A0-JsPUq0&t=3478s)

### Example 2
> "And performativity is always a risk."
- **Watch at 28:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ya_t-DLILs&t=1728s)

### Example 3
*Accent: US*
> "the performativity of identity uh this is uh a wall mural called Playbook uh"
- **Watch at 46:21**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcbt3zgrxcI&t=2781s)

### Example 4
*Accent: AUS*
> "the performativity of emotions are uh of course quite heightened in political"
- **Watch at 6:28**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGvwpV4R6Bc&t=388s)

### Example 5
*Accent: US*
> "performance about performativity I suppose right uh and about dra about uh"
- **Watch at 45:31**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKeFEgyIHfU&t=2731s)

### Example 6
*Accent: UK*
> "about gender performativity in your you know it's sort of algorithms class so"
- **Watch at 9:16**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gE9vPWHBtQ&t=556s)

### Example 7
*Accent: US*
> "than the idea of the notion of performativity in narrative, where it is assumed that there is another of a certain kind."
- **Watch at 74:57**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxL7GdE3-Rk&t=4497s)

### Example 8
> "I'll admit: I laughed along with my students that morning, partially at the comedic timing that my student had in her delivery but also at the fact that society has turned gender performativity into gender as social construct. Now, listen to this: I think that this idea has come from renowned queer studies scholar Judith Butler, whose seminal work in the performativity of gender"
- **Watch at 7:02**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcOey28XXIw&t=422s)

### Example 9
*Accent: US*
> "And that's very different from this endlessly iterative performativity circus--"
- **Watch at 77:50**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxL7GdE3-Rk&t=4670s)

### Example 10
*Accent: US*
> "desires someone else is going to say no it's about performativity um and it's"
- **Watch at 51:59**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3z4143mA9s&t=3119s)


## How to Pronounce "performativity"

- **Syllables**: per · for · ma · ti · vi · ty
- **IPA**: `/pɛrfɒrmætɪvɪtɪ/`
- **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce “performativity”?
“performativity” is pronounced /pɛrfɒrmætɪvɪtɪ/ (per · for · ma · ti · vi · ty). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation.

### How many syllables are in “performativity”?
“performativity” has 6 syllables: per · for · ma · ti · vi · ty.

### What does “performativity” mean?
The capacity of language and expressive actions to perform a type of being.

### How can I hear “performativity” used in real sentences?
This page has 15 real-world video examples of “performativity” with synchronized subtitles. Use Previous / Next (or ← / → keys) to hear each one at the exact moment it is spoken.


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