| Main Entry: | histrionics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theatrics |
Synonyms: |
dramatics, dramatization, performance, performing |
| Notes: | histrionics is a deliberate display of emotion for effect; hysterics is a fit of uncontrollable laughing or crying or frantic emotional behavior |
| Main Entry: | acting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertaining, performing |
Synonyms: |
assuming, characterization, depiction, dramatics, dramatizing, enacting, enactment, feigning, hamming, histrionics, imitating, imitation, impersonation, improvisation, mime, mimicry, pantomime, performance, play acting, playing, portrayal, portraying, posing, posturing, pretending, pretense, putting, rendition, seeming, showing off, simulating, stagecraft, stooging, theatre, theatricals |
| Main Entry: | drama |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | turmoil in real life |
Synonyms: |
climax, comedy, crisis, dramatics, emotion, excitement, farce, histrionics, melodrama, scene, spectacle, tension, theatrics, tragedy |
| Main Entry: | theatre |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business of plays |
Synonyms: |
drama, dramatics, dramaturgy, footlights, histrionics, histrionism, theater, theatrics, troupe |
| Main Entry: | dramatics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theatrics |
Synonyms: |
acting, drama, dramaturgy, histrionics, stage, theater, theatre |
| Main Entry: | melodramatics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theatrics |
Synonyms: |
acting, dramatics, histrionics, stagecraft, theatrical |
| Main Entry: | orotundity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bombast |
Synonyms: |
balderdash, claptrap, fustian, grandiloquence, histrionics, magniloquence, pomposity, rant, turgidity |
| Main Entry: | staginess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theatricalism |
Synonyms: |
acting, exhibitionism, histrionics, stagecraft, theatricality, theatricalness, theatrics |
| Main Entry: | theatricalism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | showy behavior |
Synonyms: |
acting, exhibitionism, histrionics, stagecraft, staginess, theatricality, theatricalness, theatrics |
| Main Entry: | theatricality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theatricalism |
Synonyms: |
acting, exhibitionism, histrionics, stagecraft, staginess, theatricalness, theatrics |