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 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)