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Performative vs Performant - What's the difference?

performative | performant |

As adjectives the difference between performative and performant

is that performative is being enacted as it is said while performant is capable of or characterized by an adequate or excellent level of performance or efficiency.

As nouns the difference between performative and performant

is that performative is a performative utterance while performant is someone who performs something, such as a ritual.

performative

English

(wikipedia performative)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Being enacted as it is said.
    • An example of a performative utterance could be, "I name this boat ''Alfred''".

    Related terms

    * performativity

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A performative utterance.

    • Synonyms

    * (l) ----

    performant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (jargon, chiefly, computing) Capable of or characterized by an adequate or excellent level of performance or efficiency.
    • Ours is a performant network monitoring and systems monitoring tool.
    This software is more performant than its predecessor.
  • * {{quote-book, 1977, , Modern trends in cybernetics and systems, editors=J. Rose & C. Bilciu citation
    • , passage=The program ALGOLOG is highly performant : it generated 259 linear subproblems, instead of 223.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 2003, Rod Johnson, Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development citation
    • , passage=There are strong arguments that some features of J2EE, such as entity beans, can never be as performant in many situations as some alternatives.}}
  • Of or relating to performance
  • * {{quote-book, 1990, Jean Alter, A Sociosemiotic Theory of Theatre, page=61, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=Sdzfb5AQKGQC&pg=PA61
    • , passage=As a rule, however, the performant function, when it is supported by truly impressive circus performances, tends to monopolize the audience's attention. }}

    Synonyms

    * (capable of achieving an adequate or excellent level of performance or efficiency) effective, efficient, high-performing, responsive, successful

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who performs something, such as a ritual
  • * {{quote-book, 1979, Krishan Kumar, The Pailibos citation
    • , passage=If a performant happens to be on unfriendly terms with any one in the village, the performant does everything to get him reconciled long before the preparation is taken in hand.}}

    Synonyms

    * performer ----