reflective

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Rhymes with -ɛktɪv

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English reflect

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.

Latin -īvus

Old French -ifbor.

Middle English -yf

English -ive

English reflective

From reflect + -ive.

That reflects, or redirects back to the source. Mirrors are reflective.
Pondering, especially thinking back on the past. He always becomes reflective in preparation for the new year.
That reveals or shows; revealing; indicative of. Both brides and grooms in native Hawaiian tradition wear flower garlands as a physical manifestation of their love for one another, and to some, the twining of the stems is reflective of two families now becoming one. A more tourist-friendly version established in the past couple of decades involves
Involving reflection.
By means of reflection. In JIT compilation, the running program is reflectively modified by an embedded compiler, which only uses two reflective operations […]
Reciprocal.

A supposed organ of the brain, dealing with abstract reasoning. Then why not subdivide the reflectives and perceptives into distinct organs having special relations to external objects, as well as divide the intellect into a reflective and a perceptive portion?