reflexivenessn.

a1651 N. Culverwell White Stone in Elegant Disc. Light of Nature (1652) ii. 102 Some talk of reflexivenesse in sense too, (as to see that they see, or the like) but 'tis but a fancy of their own.

1667 H. More Divine Dialogues I. ii. 234 There not being that Reflexiveness..in Brutes in their suffering as in rational Creatures.

1706 J. Hussey Glory Christ Unveil'd xxi. 427 As if we,..when filled with all the Fulness of God, were not still his own Fulness by Communicative Reflexiveness thro' Jesus Christ.

1881 B. F. Westcott & F. J. A. Hort New Test. in Orig. Greek II. App. Notes Orthogr. 144 The reflexiveness is so direct that a refusal to admit the rough breathing introduces language completely at variance with all Greek usage.

1903 B. Russell Princ. Math. xxvi. 219 The property of a relation which insures that it holds between a term and itself is called by Peano reflexiveness.

1956 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 61 322 The criteria of reflexiveness and standpoint placed in combination serve to delineate more sharply the different ways in which the self-other relationship can determine behavior.

2006 New Yorker 21 Aug. 85/1 Collage form, reflexiveness (representations about representation),..invasions of the audience: name a post-Brechtian challenge to traditional theatre, and that's what these people brought us.