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metareflexive

metareflexive adjective: reflecting on the process of reflection.

Adjective

metareflexive (comparative more metareflexive, superlative most metareflexive)

  1. Reflecting on the process of reflection.
    • Examples of metareflexive texts include Derridean deconstruction, Garfinkelian ethnomethodology […] Metareflexive writers are obsessed with methodology to the exclusion of all else […]1989, Malcolm Ashmore, The Reflexive Thesis, page 60
    • The answer is perhaps easier in the case of the latter, for one can indeed reread the above dialogue as a metareflexive commentary on the difficulties of understanding that this film brings into play.2013, Greg Hainge, Noise Matters: Towards an Ontology of Noise, page 194

Forms of metareflexive

comparativemore metareflexive
superlativemost metareflexive

Origin of metareflexive

From meta- + reflexive.

Words formed from metareflexive

Questions about metareflexive

What does metareflexive mean?
Metareflexive means reflecting on the process of reflection.
What part of speech is metareflexive?
Metareflexive is an adjective.

Words near metareflexive in the dictionary

  1. metareferential
  2. metareferentially
  3. metareflection
  4. metareflective
  5. metareflectively
  6. metareflexive
  7. metareflexively
  8. metareflexivity
  9. metaregister
  10. metaregisters
  11. metaregression

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