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Reflexive Definition

reflexive

Wikipedia has articles on: Reflexive See also réflexive

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English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin reflexivus, from Latin reflexus.

Adjective

Wikipedia has an article on: Reflexive verb

Wikipedia

reflexive (not comparable)

  1. (grammar) Having a subject and object that are the same.
  2. (set theory) Of a relation R on a set S, such that xRx for all members x of S (that is, the relation holds between any element of the set and itself).
    "Equals" is a reflexive relation.

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Noun

reflexive (plural reflexives)

  1. A reflexive pronoun.

 

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