nonactable

English

Etymology

non- +‎ actable

Adjective

nonactable (not comparable)

1. Not actable.
   • 1993, Henry Ansgar Kelly, Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages, page 2:

     In classifying epics, in effect, as nonactable forms of tragedy, Aristotle was following in the footsteps of Plato in the Theaetetus, where Socrates remarks that the chief poets in the two kinds of poetry are Epicharmus in comedy and Homer in tragedy.

   • 1999, Rebecca Mcclanahan, Word Painting:

     This distinction between nonactable and actable actions echoes our earlier distinction between showing and telling.

   • 2010, Maura Vaughn, The Anatomy of a Choice: An Actor's Guide to Text Analysis:

     It is time to stop paying attention to nonactable suggestions and begin to define the character.