reflexivity

Other forms of reflexivity

plural

reflexivities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reflexivity

What does reflexivity mean?

reflexivity means "the coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reflexivity?

reflexivity has 5 syllables: re-flex-iv-i-ty. The stress falls on "iv". In IPA it is /ˌɹiˌflɛkˈsɪvɪti/.

What is another word for reflexivity?

Close synonyms include reflexiveness, reflexiveness. 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 reflexivity a common word?

reflexivity 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.

What rhymes with reflexivity?

1 word rhymes with reflexivity. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.