reflexivityn.

1662 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 3) iii. xvi. 137 in Coll. Philos. Writings (ed. 2) Ready from every part to be reflected if the Clouds had any such Reflexivity in them.

1813 Juvenile Port-folio 3 Apr. 100/2 In boots that might surpass The reflexivity of glass.

1891 Mrs. H. Ward tr. H.-F. Amiel Jrnl. 32 Less reflexivity and more plasticity..would raise the style of Vinet.

1950 Sociometry 13 172 It [sc. spontaneity] is strategically linked in two opposite directions, to automatism and reflexivity, as well as to productivity and creativity.

1987 Amer. Speech 62 215 Not all situations involving reflexivity require the use of reflexive forms.

2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 July 21/3 Shields's virtuoso but unflashy skill..makes it easy to overlook the stories' self-conscious artistry and reflexivity.

1931 Jrnl. Philos. 28 285 The investigation and application of the structural properties of relations—symmetry, reflexivity, transitivity—has been of fundamental importance in the epistemology of Carnap and others.

1963 G. F. Simmons Introd. Topol. & Mod. Anal. i. 27 It is obvious that the relation..has the following properties: (1) x ∼ x for every x (reflexivity).

2003 K. Lambert Free Logic viii. 170 The Frege theory of definite descriptions can be so formulated in free logic that a version of the principle of the reflexivity of identity can be eliminated from the primitive foundations of classical identity theory.