acting (n.)
- act
- action
- active
- activism
- activity
- affectation
- aping
- appearance
- behavior
- bluff
- buffoonery
- business
- characterization
- cheating
- color
- coloring
- deception
- delusion
- deputy
- disguise
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- doing
- embodiment
- employment
- enactment
- exercise
- facade
- face
- fakery
- falsity
- feigning
- feint
- fraud
- front
- function
- functioning
- gag
- gilt
- gloss
- going
- ham
- hoke
- hokum
- humbug
- imitation
- impersonation
- imposture
- inaction
- incarnation
- interim
- masquerade
- meretriciousness
- mimesis
- mimicry
- mummery
- occupation
- operation
- operations
- ostentation
- overacting
- pantomime
- patter
- performance
- performing
- personation
- personification
- play
- playacting
- playing
- portrayal
- pose
- posing
- posture
- practice
- praxis
- pretense
- pretension
- pretext
- projection
- representation
- representative
- running
- semblance
- serving
- sham
- show
- simulacrum
- simulation
- slapstick
- speciousness
- stunt
- supply
- swing
- varnish
- work
- working
- workings
acting (adj.)
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave,
He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave:
Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,—
His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream:
The Genius and the mortal instruments
Are then in council; and the state of man,
Like to a little kingdom, suffers then
The nature of an insurrection.
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting;
'T was only that when he was off he was acting.
