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Unreflectiveness vs Unreflective - What's the difference?

unreflectiveness | unreflective | Derived terms |

Unreflective is a derived term of unreflectiveness.



As a noun unreflectiveness

is the state or condition of being unreflective.

As an adjective unreflective is

not reflective; thoughtless.

unreflectiveness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state or condition of being unreflective.
  • unreflective

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not reflective; thoughtless
  • *1843 , '', book 2, ch. XVII, ''The beginnings
  • *:Is it not enough, at any rate, to strike the thing called ‘Fame’ into total silence for a wise man? For fools and unreflective persons, she is and will be very noisy, this ‘Fame’, and talks of her ‘immortals’ and so forth: but if you will consider it, what is she?
  • *{{quote-news, 2009, January 6, Clyde Haberman, We Know About the Mess. Please, Clean Up Carefully., New York Times citation
  • , passage=But perhaps, too, it is worth recalling where hasty, unreflective action has taken us in recent years. }}

    Derived terms

    *unreflectively *unreflectiveness