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Deliberative vs Reflection - What's the difference?

deliberative | reflection |

As an adjective deliberative

is .

As a noun reflection is

the act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.

deliberative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That deliberates, considers carefully.
  • * Bancroft
  • a consummate work of deliberative wisdom
  • * Hallam
  • The court of jurisdiction is to be distinguished from the deliberative body, the advisers of the crown.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Steven Sloman , title=The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation , volume=100, issue=1, page=74 , magazine= citation , passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.
  • ----

    reflection

    English

    Alternative forms

    * reflexion

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.
  • The property of a propagated wave being thrown back from a surface (such as a mirror).
  • Something, such as an image, that is reflected.
  • (senseid) Careful thought or consideration.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
  • , passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections .}}
  • An implied criticism.
  • (label) The process or mechanism of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time.
  • Derived terms

    * reflectional * reflectionless * self-reflection

    See also

    * refraction * diffraction