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Pretending so well reality files it under fact.
means To do something — a deed, or a performance of one.
from From Latin 'actus' (a doing, a driving, a performance), from the verb 'agere' meaning 'to drive, lead, or do.' That same root 'agere' fans out into a surprising family — 'agent,' 'agenda,' 'agile,' 'exact,' 'react' — all carrying some flavor of driving or doing. 'Act' entered English in the 1300s-1400s via Old French, first for formal deeds and legal proceedings before the stage claimed it for pretending.
- etymology
- from Latin agere, to do or drive
- legal sense
- a law once it passes
- theater sense
- a section between intermissions, not intermissions themselves
- psychology
- fake it till you become it, literally