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Reflexive, or the property reflexivity, may refer to:

Fiction

• Metafiction

Grammar

• Reflexivity (grammar):
  • Reflexive pronoun, a pronoun with a reflexive relationship with its self-identical antecedent
  • Reflexive verb, where a semantic agent and patient are the same

Mathematics and computer science

• Reflexive relation, a relation where elements of a set are self-related
• Reflexive user interface, an interface that permits its own command verbs and sometimes underlying code to be edited
• Reflexive operator algebra, an operator algebra that has enough invariant subspaces to characterize it
• Reflexive space, a subset of Banach spaces
• Reflexive bilinear form, a bilinear form for which the order of a pair of vectors does not affect whether it evaluates to zero.

Biology

• Reflexive antagonism, the phenomenon by which muscles with opposing functions tend to antagonistically inhibit each other.
• Self-reflexivity (see Self-reference)

Other

• Reflexive Entertainment, a video game developer
• Reflexivity (social theory), a concept in social theory relating to the capacity of an individual agent to act against influences of socialization and social structure

See also

• Reflection (disambiguation)
• Reflections (disambiguation)
• Reflectivism
• Sesquilinear form – Generalization of a bilinear form

• Disambiguation pages