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reflexive::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | reflexive pronoun |
| Type of | personal pronoun |
reflexive::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | self-referent |
| Derivation | reflexiveness, reflexivity |
Examples of reflexive
reflexive
More generally, it became a reflexive part of the Republican political language.
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In languages with a distinct reflexive pronoun form, it is often gender-neutral.
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Bane joked about his reflexive habit of taking right-handed high school pitchers.
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It is worth noting, between the lines, the reflexive scapegoating of the media.
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You can pick out the Americans in a crowd of tourists by their reflexive grins.
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For many verbs that require an object, a reflexive pronoun can be used instead.
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These verbs require the use of the reflexive pronoun, appropriate to the subject.
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In this surge of reflexive rejection, some worthy initiatives went down to defeat.
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This reflexive and crippling cynicism is now shared across the political spectrum.
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- Automatic: without volition or conscious control; "the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"; "a reflex knee jerk"; "sneezing is reflexive"
- Reflexive pronoun: a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent
- Referring back to itself
- (reflexivity) the coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent
- (reflexivity) (logic and mathematics) a relation such that it holds between an element and itself
- (Reflexivity (grammar)) In grammar, reflexivity is a fproperty of syntactic constructs whereby two argumentts (actual or implicit) of an action or relation expressed by a single predicate have the same reference.
- (Reflexivity (sociology)) Reflexivity refers to circular relationships between cause and effect. A reflexive relationship is bidirectional; with both the cause and the effect affecting one another in a situation that renders both functions causes and effects. ...
- (Reflexivity) One reason why forecasting, in human affairs, doesn't work very well. If people know they are expected to behave in a certain way, they're likely to change that way, and spoil the forecast. ...
- (Reflexivity) This describes the connections between knowledge and social life. The knowledge we gain about society can affect the way in which we act in it. ...
