reflex action

Questions about reflex action

What does reflex action mean?

reflex action means "an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus".

What is another word for reflex action?

Close synonyms include reflex, reflex response, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is reflex action a common word?

reflex action is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.