The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reflective \Re*flect"ive\ (r?*fl?kt"?v), a. [Cf. F. r['e]flectif. Cf. Reflexive.]
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Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror.
In the reflective stream the sighing bride, viewing her charms.
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Capable of exercising thought or judgment; as, reflective reason.
--Prior.His perceptive and reflective faculties . . . thus acquired a precocious and extraordinary development.
--Motley. Addicted to introspective or meditative habits; as, a reflective person.
(Gram.) Reflexive; reciprocal. [1913 Webster] -- Re*flect"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*flect"ive*ness, n. ``Reflectiveness of manner.''
--J. C. Shairp.
Wiktionary
n. The state or property of being reflective.
Usage examples of "reflectiveness".
She had some silly final idea that the poor man might now serve permanently to check the more dreaded applicant: a proof that her ordinary reflectiveness was blunted.
But her unexercised reflectiveness was on the highroad of accepted doctrines, with their chorus of the moans of gossips for supernatural intervention to give us justice.
Then the old monkey arose with a puzzled look, half scornful, and made for the door slowly, turning his head toward Shibli Bagarag betweenwhiles as he went, and scratching his lower limbs with the mute reflectiveness of age and extreme caution.
In place of casques they had crash helmets, visors adjusted to full reflectiveness.