About The Word Acting

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Acting

Acting Meaning & Definition
Acting Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Acting?

[n] the performance of a part or role in a drama

Synonyms | Synonyms for Acting: performing | playacting | playing

Related Terms | Find terms related to Acting: act | action | active | activism | activity | ad interim | affectation | aping | appearance | at work | attitudinizing | behavior | behavioral | bluff | bluffing | buffoonery | business | characterization | cheating | color | coloring | deception | delusion | deputative | deputy | disguise | dissemblance | dissembling | dissimulation | doing | dumb show | embodiment | employment | enacting | enactment | exercise | facade | face | fakery | faking | false air | false front | false show | falsity | feigning | feint | four-flushing | fraud | front | function | functional | functioning | gag | gilt | gloss | going | going on | ham | hammy acting | hoke | hokum | humbug | humbuggery | imitation | impersonation | imposture | in exercise | in force | in hand | in operation | in play | in practice | in process | in the works | inaction | incarnation | interim | masquerade | meretriciousness | mimesis | mimicking | mimicry | miming | movements | mummery | occupation | on foot | on the fire | ongoing | operating | operation | operational | operations | ostentation | outward show | overacting | pantomime | pantomiming | patter | performance | performing | personation | personification | play | playacting | playing | portrayal | pose | posing | posture | practice | practicing | praxis | pretense | pretension | pretext | pro tem | pro tempore | projection | representation | representative | running | seeming | semblance | serving | sham | show | simulacrum | simulation | slapstick | speciousness | stage business | stage directions | stage presence | stunt | supply | swing | taking a role | varnish | window dressing | work | working | workings

See Also | activity | business | byplay | characterization | dumb show | enactment | hamming | heroics | impersonation | mime | overacting | pantomime | performance | personation | portrayal | roleplaying | skit | stage business

Acting In Webster's Dictionary

\Act"ing\, a. 1. Operating in any way. 2. Doing duty for another; officiating; as, an acting superintendent.

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