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You also sense that his charming smile, which he slips into with almost maddening reflexiveness, earned him a lot of them to begin with.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2022

That test also sparked Apatow’s directorial imagination and gave rise to some brilliant and audacious set pieces of an extravagant pop-cultural reflexiveness, a touch of the Tashlinesque.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 7, 2016

That is a level of reflexiveness, a level of self-scrutiny, too far.

From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2013

There is an interesting discussion of the reflexiveness of infinite wholes in the first of Galileo's Dialogues on Motion.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand

The two properties of reflexiveness and non-inductiveness, which we have considered as characteristics of infinite numbers, have not so far been proved to be always found together.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand