prereflective

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ reflective.

Adjective

prereflective (comparative more prereflective, superlative most prereflective)

1. Occurring prior to a reflective stage.
   • 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xxvi:

     The erotics of composition are essential to the process, some prereflective excitation and orientation, some sense that your own little verse-craft can dock safe and sound at the big quay of language.