Agentic

Quick meaning: Agentic is an adjective meaning That behaves like an agent: able to express or expressing agency or control on one's own behalf or on the behalf of another.

Meaning

That behaves like an agent: able to express or expressing agency or control on one's own behalf or on the behalf of another.

More Meanings

1. (psychology, by extension, of a psychological state of a person) That obeys authority (introduced in Milgram's theory).
2. (psychology) Having to do with performance, or achieving status.
3. (psychology) Having agency; able to make independent decisions in pursuit of a goal.

Example Sentences

Billy was agentic in his learning and didn't only do what the teacher told him.

Most individuals can be easily triggered to enter, and be comfortable in the agentic state.

The next section examines ways in which network and partnership management may be able to reconcile self-organization with agentic intervention.

From the perspective of the previous chapter, to change from a patient to an agent is to adopt or elaborate an agentic plot that the person lives (Howard 1989).

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include agentive, actable, active, operative, actionable, energic.

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