Reflexive definition

Reflexive

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WordNet

(1) Referring back to itself

(2) Without volition or conscious control

"The automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"

"A reflex knee jerk"

"Sneezing is reflexive"

(3) A personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent

WiktionaryText

Having a subject and object that are the same.
Of a relation R on a set S, such that xRx for all members x of S (that is, the relation holds between any element of the set and itself).

"Equals" is a reflexive relation.