autoreflexive
autoreflexive adjective: occurring in such a way that the agent performing an action is inherently utilized.
Adjective
autoreflexive (comparative more autoreflexive, superlative most autoreflexive)
- Occurring in such a way that the agent performing an action is inherently utilized.
- One might describe what happens between Columbus's first letter and the postconquest narratives of Francisco López de Gómara or Bernal Díaz del Castillo as the European imposition of meanings onto American society — rendering allegorical what was encountered as autoreflexive — and the consequent...1999, Roland Greene, Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas, page 13
- The personal pronouns combine with postposition =gon and the two enclitics =nang 'alone' and =wuk 'by strength of' in autoreflexive expressions (more at §7.1.2). These can in some cases be interpreted as oblique verbal arguments rather than adverbial phrases […]2017, Hannah Sarvasy, A Grammar of Nungon: A Papuan Language of Northeast New Guinea, page 161
Forms of autoreflexive
| comparative | more autoreflexive |
|---|---|
| superlative | most autoreflexive |
Origin of autoreflexive
From auto- + reflexive.
Words formed from autoreflexive
Questions about autoreflexive
- What does autoreflexive mean?
- Autoreflexive means occurring in such a way that the agent performing an action is inherently utilized.
- What part of speech is autoreflexive?
- Autoreflexive is an adjective.
Words near autoreflexive in the dictionary
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