enactively

English

Etymology

From enactive +‎ -ly.

Adverb

enactively (not comparable)

1. In an enactive manner; by acting out.
   • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:

     I was chatting with his director, and he was walking by himself a few yards behind. Suddenly I thought I heard my patient. I was extremely startled, and turned round — and saw it was Dustin thinking to himself, but thinking with his body, thinking enactively, thinking of the young autistic man he had just seen.