Performance
Performance noun - A presentation of an artistic work (as a piece of music) from a particular point of view.
Usage example: a disappointing, lackluster performance of a classic of the musical theater
Reading is a synonym for performance in performing arts topic. In some cases you can use "Reading" instead a noun "Performance".
Reading
Reading noun - A presentation of an artistic work (as a piece of music) from a particular point of view.
Usage example: a very bizarre reading of one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies by an alternative theater company
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Synonyms for Reading
Performance is a synonym for reading in recital topic. Sometimes you can use "Performance" instead a noun "Reading", if it concerns topics such as performing arts.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- exercise and performance
- exercise and reading
- execution and performance
- execution and reading
- piece and performance
- piece and reading
- display and performance
- display and reading
- exposition and performance
- exposition and reading
- show and performance
- show and reading
- practice and performance
- practice and reading
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Similarly, one reading/performance of Hamlet takes a philosophical conversation between Hamlet and Horatio from the "bad" quarto and inserts it at the beginning; Hamlet, being a teen Nietzsche Wannabe, runs a tape recorder so that he can listen to the discussion again.
Source: The Voice -
After her Carnegie Hall performance, he tries to buy all the copies of the Post—the one paper he couldn't buy off—to prevent her from reading the reviews.
Source: Film / Florence Foster Jenkins -
An attempt to find someone who has been left something nice then turns the reading into a performance of "Chattanooga Choo-choo." This is disrupted by someone finally pointing out that Lord Hackingbottmo is the person reading the will out in the first place.
Source: Radio / The Burkiss Way
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Reading and Performance. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/performance/reading
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