Difference between Reflective and Ruminative

REFLECTIVE vs RUMINATIVE: ADJECTIVE

Capable of physically reflecting light or sound
Persistently or morbidly thoughtful
Of, relating to, produced by, or resulting from reflection.
Capable of or producing reflection.
Characterized by or given to serious thinking or contemplation; thoughtful. : pensive.
Devoted to matters of the mind
Addicted to introspective or meditative habits.
Reflexive; reciprocal.
Something which reflects, or redirects back to the source.
Thinking back on the past.
Deeply or seriously thoughtful
Throwing back images.

Produced by reflection.
Throwing back rays or images; giving reflections; reflecting.
Taking cognizance of the operations of the mind; exercising thought or reflection; capable of exercising thought or judgment.
Having a tendency to or characterized by reflection.
Devoted to reflection; containing reflections.
In grammar, reflexive.

Reflects, Reflect, Intellectual, Broody, Pondering, Musing, Specular, Brooding, Meditative, Pensive, Ruminative, Thoughtful, Contemplative, Mirrorlike, Reflecting

Illuminating, Reflect, Intellectual, Broody, Pondering, Musing, Specular, Brooding, Meditative, Pensive, Ruminative, Thoughtful, Contemplative, Mirrorlike, Reflecting

Great looking cards with heavy reflective silver foil.
Demonstrates reflective practice in written or verbal form.
Gain an experiential understanding of Reflective Structured Dialogue.
Reflective reports: In addition to the assessed reports, three reflective reports are completed.
Researchers read transcripts, wrote reflective notes and engaged in reflective dialogues about each interview and the whole material.
Engage in faceface interactions and obtain reflective feedback so that they can develop the skills to do reflective supervision with other professionals.
Street names shall be displayed using reflective white letters on a reflective green background.
Reflective Practice post outlines the Gibbs Reflective Cycle, and how to write reflectively.
Perform transmission, reflective and aging studies on renewable reflective films.
Presentation Reflective Reading, Reflective Responding Reflection and the Writing Course Reflection and Assessment Literacy and the Curriculum Reflective Texts, Reflective Writers.

Another hypothesis of the study was the positive association between psychological inflexibility, ruminative thinking and worry.
Reflective and ruminative processing of positive emotional memories in bipolar disorder and healthy controls.
Ruminative self focus in daily life: Associations with daily activities and depressive symptoms.
Response style theory proposes two dimensions of response styles, namely, ruminative external demands.
One possible mechanism by which humor grants benefits in these cases is the reduction of ruminative thoughts.
Remission of Chronic Ruminative Vomiting Through a Reversal of Social Contingencies.
II, Trait Hope Scale, and the Ruminative Responses Scale.
Studies show that stressful life events both ignite and accelerate ruminative thinking.
The ruminative coping style has an especially strong association with depression.
Toward a motivational and structural theory of ruminative thought.