agentic
- adjective
- /əˈdʒɛntɪk/
- Specialized
- What kind of operating environment and agentic moral standards would be needed for the media to be able to refuse to fulfill its potential (occult) elite-integrating and dissident-suppressing function?
- agentic state
Examples
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And then you also talk about like this agentic sovereign view.
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But given the fact that this is an exclusively agentic decision that you're making, right?
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And I, I, I, I think this agentic view is, you know, both AP accurate and adaptive.
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Notice the use of verbs in the poems, and one can see the agentic nature of non-humans and the interactions between them.
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These practices revealed how affinity spaces were created, how apprenticeship models were established, and how agentic roles enhanced their extensions of self while blogging.
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Lent and Brown (2006a) argue that interventions may be employed to improve functioning (e.g., setting goals, etc.), and Chen (2006) has suggested ways to design and implement action plans to foster career development based upon Bandura's agentic perspective.
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As Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann write, "The new materialisms suggest that things (or matter) draw their agentic power from their relation to discourses that in turn structure human relations to materiality" (4).
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In grammar, the agentic voice emphasizes the doer of the action in a sentence.
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The discussion focused on agentic behaviors that indicate who is responsible for the decisions made.
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Understanding the agentic role in various social interactions can clarify how actions influence outcomes.
Synonyms
About a person or thing that does an action, especially in grammar
Relating to a person or thing that causes change
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Agentic comes from the same root as agent and action, the old word agere meaning 'to do' or 'to act'. So, in grammar agentic describes the 'doer' — the noun that does the action in a sentence.