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a grammatical or semantic property of a language or construction that indicates that the subject of a verb is also the object or recipient of the action performed by the subject, creating a self-referential or reflective relationship within the sentence
What is "reflexivity"?
Reflexivity is a grammatical or semantic feature in language where the subject of a verb is also the object or receiver of the action that the subject performs. This creates a self-referential relationship within a sentence. For example, in the sentence "She washed herself," "she" is both the doer of the action and the one receiving it. Reflexivity helps express actions that involve the same person or thing in both roles, making it clear that the action is directed back at the subject.
(logic and mathematics) a relation such that it holds between an element and itself
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