dramatics

See also: dramàtics

English

Noun

dramatics (countable and uncountable, plural dramatics)

  1. (used with a singular or plural verb) The art of acting and stagecraft.
    • 2005, Carol Seefeldt, How to Work with Standards in the Early Childhood Classroom:
      By providing opportunities, time, and props, teachers can help children achieve the theatre standards of participating in sociodramatic playgroups and taking on roles of others in creative dramatics.
  2. (used with a singular or plural verb) Dramatic behaviour.
    Synonym: histrionics

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