Dictionary

autoreflexive en · ADJ

Etymology

From auto- + reflexive.

Meanings

1. Occurring in such a way that the agent performing an action is inherently utilized.
   • One might describe what happens between Columbus's first letter and the postconquest narratives of Francisco López de Gómara or Bernal Díaz del Castillo as the European imposition of meanings onto American society — rendering allegorical what was encountered as autoreflexive — and the consequent loss of the indigenous perspectives that might challenge that construction of the New World. 1999, Roland Greene, Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas, page 13:
   • The personal pronouns combine with postposition =gon and the two enclitics =nang 'alone' and =wuk 'by strength of' in autoreflexive expressions (more at §7.1.2). These can in some cases be interpreted as oblique verbal arguments rather than adverbial phrases […] 2017, Hannah Sarvasy, A Grammar of Nungon: A Papuan Language of Northeast New Guinea, page 161:

Forms

Deriveds

autoreflexively · autoreflexivity

Relateds

autoreflective · autoreflexion