Explore Reflexivity through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Reflexivity in a sentence
Reflexivity meaning
The condition or state of being reflexive.
Synonyms of Reflexivity
Using Reflexivity
- The main meaning on this page is: The condition or state of being reflexive.
- Useful related words include: reflexiveness, coreference, logical relation, mathematical relation.
- In the example corpus, reflexivity often appears in combinations such as: reflexivity and, reflexivity in, of reflexivity.
Context around Reflexivity
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Reflexivity
- In this selection, "reflexivity" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, public, profound, satisfies, property, see and itself stand out and add context to how "reflexivity" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and cultural reflexivity and and public reflexivity then the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "reflexivity" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with reflexivity
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The excitement since Musk’s tweet looks very much like reflexivity in action. (13 words)
For a comparison of Adorno's and Bourdieu's rather divergent conceptions of reflexivity, see: Karakayali, Nedim. (17 words)
The film plays with an awareness not only of classic noir but also of neo-noir reflexivity itself. (18 words)
Defining equality within a theory If a theory has a binary formula A(x,y) which satisfies reflexivity and Leibniz's law, the theory is said to have equality, or to be a theory with equality. (36 words)
If there continues to be little or no appetite for internal critique and public reflexivity then the same kinds of ‘solutions’ will be tried again and again, despite their now well-documented flaws and limitations. (35 words)
That might be a sign of some reflexivity in the market; the belief that a stock market drop hurts Trump and thus makes a blue wave and larger fiscal spending more likely. (32 words)
Example sentences (12)
The excitement since Musk’s tweet looks very much like reflexivity in action.
If there continues to be little or no appetite for internal critique and public reflexivity then the same kinds of ‘solutions’ will be tried again and again, despite their now well-documented flaws and limitations.
That might be a sign of some reflexivity in the market; the belief that a stock market drop hurts Trump and thus makes a blue wave and larger fiscal spending more likely.
Reflexivity can be summed up as the way our knowledge claims end up changing the world and the behaviors we seek to describe and explain.
A coproduction between Italy and France, Contempt became known as a pinnacle in cinematic modernism with its profound reflexivity.
Defining equality within a theory If a theory has a binary formula A(x,y) which satisfies reflexivity and Leibniz's law, the theory is said to have equality, or to be a theory with equality.
Each of these three choices of topology on leads to a variant of reflexivity property for topological vector spaces.
For a comparison of Adorno's and Bourdieu's rather divergent conceptions of reflexivity, see: Karakayali, Nedim.
Here the order relation on the elements of A is inherited from P; for this reason, reflexivity and transitivity need not be required explicitly.
The existence of identity morphisms and the composability of the morphisms are guaranteed by the reflexivity and the transitivity of the preorder.
The film plays with an awareness not only of classic noir but also of neo-noir reflexivity itself.
Volume Magazine – the collaborative project by Archis (Amsterdam), AMO Rotterdam and C-lab ( Columbia University NY) – is a dynamic experimental think tank devoted to the process of spatial and cultural reflexivity.
Common combinations with reflexivity
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- reflexivity and 3×
- reflexivity in 2×
- of reflexivity 2×