reflexive
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- adjective
- /rɪˈflɛksɪv/
- Specialized
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reflexivo
- In grammar, a reflexive pronoun refers back to the subject, like 'myself' in 'I made it myself.'
- self-reflexive
- reflexive pronoun
- reflexive type
This is a reflexive way of speaking, right?
- This is a reflexive way of speaking, right?
- And that's a reflexive recursive system as well.
- Notice that the willing itself can be somewhat reflexive.
- So since we have side, side side for these two triangles, yes, AJ reflexive property.
- There's self reflexive mode, which is films that are essentially about their own making.
- They probably have built into them these, you know, reflexive first order concepts of mind and experience and self and so on.
- And This is why I think a, a, a degree of reflexive reflective practice.
Examples
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And, of course, the image of the mirror leads us back to the reflexive nature of thought.
Academic text (1995) -
Sloan's choice of language is in keeping with his self-reflexive use of the motif.
Academic text (2011) -
This is a reflexive way of speaking, right?
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So it's reflexive if every element in little A is related to itself.
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Are we reflexive or are we reflective?
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As such, our recent publications of counternarratives need to be seen through this reflexive lens.
Academic text (2008) -
Our actions, both economic and noneconomic, have a reflexive dimension and a self-reinforcing dynamic.
Academic text (2008) -
The project functioned as a reflexive, community-based institution for representing a culturally meaningful view of aging.
Academic text (1998) -
On the other hand, young mediums are actively engaged in redefining local identity through self-reflexive social critique.
Academic text (1995) -
In Italy, in the Veneto, the poetry of Andrea Zanzotto is an insistently self-reflexive example of local literature.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
Referring back to itself, for example a sentence that talks about itself
Compounds
- Specialized
A verb where one person does and receives the action, using words like 'myself'
- Specialized
A pronoun like myself that points back to the person, animal, or thing doing the action
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reflexive comes from re- 'back' and flect 'to bend', just like reflect which means 'to bend back'. That is why reflexive describes words or actions that 'bend back' to the subject and refer to themselves.