Definition of Reflectiveness

1. Noun. The capability of quiet thought or contemplation.

Exact synonyms: Reflectivity
Generic synonyms: Thoughtfulness
Derivative terms: Reflective, Reflective

Definition of Reflectiveness

1. Noun. The state or property of being reflective. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reflectiveness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reflectiveness

reflectings
reflection
reflection X-ray microscopy
reflection coefficient
reflection factor
reflection nebula
reflection nebulae
reflection nebulas
reflectional
reflectionally
reflectionless
reflections
reflective
reflective power
reflectively
reflectiveness (current term)
reflectivenesses
reflectivities
reflectivity
reflectogram
reflectograms
reflectography
reflectometer
reflectometers
reflectometries
reflectometry
reflector
reflectorise
reflectorize

Literary usage of Reflectiveness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Self-formation; Or, The History of an Individual Mind: Intended as a Guide by Capel Lofft (1846)
"We have no double reflectiveness, no second mirror whereby we might see it at its work. In thinking, we must always proceed in a great measure by the Sio/og ..."

2. China's Power Sector Reforms: Where to Next? by International Energy Agency, Caroline Varley (2006)
"This approach has the advantage that it can be deployed quickly, whereas the unwinding of subsidies implied by cost reflectiveness is likely to take time ..."

3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1893)
"He says, "cautious reflectiveness."- I did not say that causation is to be explained from the law of the conservation of matter and energy. ..."

4. Natural Rights: A Criticism of Some Political and Ethical Conceptions by David George Ritchie (1903)
"But the growth of reflectiveness, and of imaginative sympathy, must make one generation take thought for those who are to come after. ..."

5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1851)
"He seems however to have excelled in natural reflectiveness, if we may form a conclusion from the discourses of Jesus, in connection with the ideas appended ..."

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