reflexivitynoun [ U ]
/rɪ.fleksˈɪv.ə.ti//rɪ.fleksˈɪv.ə.t̬i/specializedthe fact of someone being able to examine his or her own feelings, reactions, and motives (= reasons for acting) and how these influence what he or she does or thinks in a situation:
I had in that time developed a degree of reflexivity unusual for a teenager.
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- In other words reflexivity counters the biases the researcher brings to her research.
- By reflexivity I mean the ability to stand back and look at your thinking and realise hey, maybe my view of reality is tainted by my desires.
- He said that much of what passes for theoretically informed research lacks any sense of critical distance or reflexivity about its own production and procedures.
- The agents' competence is assessed on the basis of their capacity for reflexivity and rationalisation of their actions.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Knowledge and awareness
- abroad
- acquaintance
- as every schoolboy/schoolchild knows idiom
- at/in the back of your mind idiom
- awareness
- be ahead of the game idiom
- consciousness
- familiarity
- firsthand
- general knowledge
- given
- grounding
- have a nodding acquaintance with sb/sth idiom
- literacy
- loop
- omniscient
- perception
- perceptual
- schoolboy
- secret
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