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REFLEXIVENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does reflexiveness mean?
• REFLEXIVENESS (noun)
The noun REFLEXIVENESS has 2 senses:
1. the coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent
2. (logic and mathematics) a relation such that it holds between an element and itself
Familiarity information: REFLEXIVENESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Synonyms:
reflexiveness; reflexivity
Hypernyms ("reflexiveness" is a kind of...):
coreference (the grammatical relation between two words that have a common referent)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(logic and mathematics) a relation such that it holds between an element and itself
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Synonyms:
reflexiveness; reflexivity
Hypernyms ("reflexiveness" is a kind of...):
logical relation (a relation between propositions)
mathematical relation (a relation between mathematical expressions (such as equality or inequality))
Domain category:
math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)
logic (the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference)
Derivation:
reflexive (referring back to itself)
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