actionist

noun — 3 senses

actionist

noun

Etymology From action + -ist.

1

Art, Arts Capitalized, Sometimes One taking part in the actionism movement.

The most radical of all 1960s performers, the Viennese Actionists explored a broad spectrum of transgressions up until the end of the 1960s: sodomy, rape, necrophilia, zoophilia, anthropophagy, self-mutilation, and animal sacrifices.2022, Sascha Bru […] , editors, Crisis: The Avant-Garde and Modernism in Critical Modes, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN:

2

Business A shareholder in a joint-stock company.

Obsolete or non-native speakers

3

Synonym of activist.

Generally speaking, the risks to the actionists on the one hand, and to the system against which they take action on the other, are least in the case of nonviolent protest and greatest in the case of nonviolent intervention.2008 [1971], Joan Valerie Bondurant, editor, Conflict: Violence and Nonviolence, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 155:

Related terms: direct actionist

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