Lexic.us

Definition of Reflexiveness

1. Noun. The coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent.

2. Noun. (logic and mathematics) a relation such that it holds between an element and itself.

Definition of Reflexiveness

1. Noun. The state or quality of being reflexive. ¹

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Definition of Reflexiveness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reflexiveness

reflexing reflexion reflexional reflexionally reflexions reflexity reflexive reflexive possessive pronoun reflexive possessive pronouns reflexive pronoun

reflexive pronouns reflexive statement reflexive verb reflexive verbs reflexively reflexiveness (current term) reflexivenesses reflexives reflexivities reflexivity

reflexly reflexmate reflexmates reflexogenic reflexogenic pressosensitivity reflexogenic zone reflexogenous reflexograph reflexological reflexologies

Literary usage of Reflexiveness

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

1. The Church of St. Bunco: A Drastic Treatment of a Copyrighted Religion...un by Gordon Clark (1901)
"The self-reflexiveness of apprehension, in the manufacture of phenomena, was named by Kant " the transcendental synthesis of imagination "—the word ..."

2. The Sounds and Inflections of the Greek Dialects: Ionic by Herbert Weir Smyth (1894)
"The future middle in Ionic did duty for the former; indeed, the language did not seek to mark passiveness as a thing distinct from reflexiveness. ..."

3. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1908)
"The middle with its general reflexiveness is subdivided by Stahl into various classes. What is usually called the direct reflexive, roughly equivalent to ..."

4. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury (1896)
"She accepted their opinions with the curious docility and reflexiveness which, strong as was her mind in a way, always distinguished her; and as a sign of ..."

5. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1900) by George Saintsbury (1906)
"She accepted their opinions with the curious docility and reflexiveness which, strong as was her mind in a way, always distinguished her; and as a sign of ..."

6. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1893)
"THE SELF-reflexiveness OF APPREHENSION, in the manufacture of phenomena, was named by Kant "THE TRANSCENDENTAL SYNTHESIS OF IMAGINATION," the word ..."

7. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"... reflexiveness, and other similar ideas, whereby the word is built up tier on tier to a marvellous ..."

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