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prereflective

prereflective adjective: occurring prior to a reflective stage.

Adjective

prereflective (comparative more prereflective, superlative most prereflective)

  1. Occurring prior to a reflective stage.
    • The erotics of composition are essential to the process, some prereflective excitation and orientation, some sense that your own little verse-craft can dock safe and sound at the big quay of language.1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xxvi

Forms of prereflective

comparativemore prereflective
superlativemost prereflective

Origin of prereflective

From pre- + reflective.

Questions about prereflective

What does prereflective mean?
Prereflective means occurring prior to a reflective stage.
What part of speech is prereflective?
Prereflective is an adjective.

Words near prereflective in the dictionary

  1. prerecurrence
  2. prereduced
  3. prereduction
  4. prereductions
  5. prereferral
  6. prereflective
  7. prereform
  8. prereformational
  9. prerefunded
  10. preregister
  11. preregistered

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