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What is the noun for reflexivity?

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reflex
  1. An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
  2. (linguistics) the descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language
  3. The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
  4. (obsolete) Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “My shock was just a reflex from hearing the surprising news.”
reflexograph
  1. An apparatus used to record one's reflexes graphically.
  2. An instance of an experiment or examination using such an apparatus.
reflexive
  1. (grammar) A reflexive pronoun.
  2. (grammar) A reflexive verb.
reflexivity
  1. The condition or state of being reflexive.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The reflexivity between an individual's confidence and their performance in a high-pressure situation can either fuel success or result in a vicious cycle of self-doubt and failure.”
      “In lieu of that volume, he has presented excursuses on reflexivity in most of the half-dozen books he has published.”
      “This theory of reflexivity and authentic subjectivity is closely related to Schweickart's concept of interiority.”
reflexiveness
  1. The state or quality of being reflexive.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The paintings take a bit of getting used to, being both modern in their reflexiveness and old-fashioned in their genre.”
      “Critical knowledge is grounded in a reflexiveness that practical knowledge lacks.”
      “In works such as Sabbatical and On With the Story, reflexiveness is absorbed into the work's narrative flow.”
reflexivization
  1. (grammar) The process of reflexivizing.
reflexivizations
  1. plural of reflexivization
reflexographs
  1. plural of reflexograph
reflexivities
reflexives
  1. plural of reflexive
  2. Examples:
    1. “In other languages, reflexives are even less amenable to a two-participant interpretation.”
      “Secondly, English is the only Germanic language with few reflexives that are spelled out.”
      “Binding is concerned with the type of anaphora found with pronouns and reflexives, but the notion is greatly extended.”
reflexes
  1. plural of reflex
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He saw people as conditioned reflexes, not souls with intentions, willpower and choice.”
      “Pavlov's studies investigated the way in which environmental stimuli inspired biological reflexes in animals.”
      “Families frequently misdiagnose their loved ones' involuntary muscle reflexes as consciousness.”
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