Other forms: improvisations
Improvisation is performing with no script, inventing as you go. Jazz improvisation, a piece of improvisation, comedy improvisation.
It is a recognised skill with its own training and rules — the best known being that you accept whatever your partner offers rather than blocking it. The short form improv is standard in comedy and increasingly everywhere. Outside performance, improvisation means making do with whatever is available: a bit of improvisation with a coat hanger. Note the verb improvise, which covers both, and that improvised in news writing usually means makeshift and slightly dangerous.
1nounimprovisationPerforming without a script, inventing in the moment.
“The whole second half was improvisation.”
synonyms: improv, ad-libbing
2nounmakingMaking do with whatever is available.
“It took some improvisation and a roll of tape.”
improvisation is a way of performing or making do.
Also accepted in games: improv
Latin improvisus meant unforeseen — in-, not, plus provisus, foreseen, from providere, to see ahead, which also gives provide and prudent. To improvise is to act on what was not seen coming, which is exactly the demand.
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English, today
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From French improvisation. Morphologically improvise + ation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA