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playacting
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Noun playacting has 1 sense
- playacting(n = noun.act) acting, performing, playing - the performance of a part or role in a drama; Array is a kind of activity, performing arts
has particulars: characterization, enactment, personation, portrayal, impersonation, personation, method, method acting, dumb show, mime, pantomime, business, byplay, stage business, skit, hamming, overacting, heroics, reenactment, roleplaying
is a part of performance
Derived form verb playact1
THESAURUS
playacting
acting, affectation, appearance, attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing, buffoonery, business, characterization, cheating, color, coloring, deception, delusion, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, facade, face, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, feigning, feint, four-flushing, fraud, front, gag, gilt, gloss, ham, hammy acting, hoke, hokum, humbug, humbuggery, impersonation, imposture, masquerade, meretriciousness, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mummery, ostentation, outward show, overacting, pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personation, playing, portrayal, pose, posing, posture, pretense, pretension, pretext, projection, representation, seeming, semblance, sham, show, simulacrum, simulation, slapstick, speciousness, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stunt, taking a role, varnish, window dressing
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