adjective Philosophy, Linguistics.
- pertaining to a linguistic act performed by a speaker in producing an utterance, as suggesting, warning, promising, or requesting.
noun
- philosophy an act performed by a speaker by virtue of uttering certain words, as for example the acts of promising or of threateningAlso called: illocutionary act See also performative Compare perlocution
1955, from assimilated form of in- (1) “not, opposite of” + locution.
1955, from illocution + -ary.