method acting

1. 1.

   an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed

   Synonymsmethod

   Broaderacting

Questions about method acting

What does method acting mean?

method acting means "an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed".

What is another word for method acting?

Close synonyms include method. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is method acting a common word?

method acting is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.