1) Automatic 2) Involuntary 3) Referring back to itself 4) Reflex 1) Backward 2) Inert 3) Reflex 
Verb form where the subject refers back to itself: I wash myself
• (a.) Implying censure. • (a.) Having for its direct object a pronoun which refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; -- said of certain verbs; as, the witness perjured himself; I bethought myself. Applied also to pronouns of this class; reciprocal; reflective. • (a.) Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to...
Re·flex'ive adjective 1. [ Confer French réflexif .] Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past. « Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith.» Hammond. 2. Implying censure. [ Obsolete] 'What man does not resent an u...
[adj] - (grammar) referring back to itself
reflexive 1. Describes a pronoun referring to the same person or thing as another noun or pronoun in the same sentence. The reflexive pronouns in English end in '-self' or '-selves,' e.g. 'myself,' 'yourself,' 'ourselves.' 2. Describes a verb that takes a reflexive pronoun as an object, thereby indicating an action that the subject does to or for ...
self-referent adjective referring back to itself
A type of structure where both subject and object have the same referent, e.g. He injured himself.