agentic
/eɪˈd͡ʒɛn.tɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.21 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That behaves like an agent: able to express or expressing agency or control on one's own behalf or on the behalf of another.
adj
That behaves like an agent: able to express or expressing agency or control on one's own behalf or on the behalf of another.
adj
That obeys authority (introduced in Milgram's theory).
adj
Having to do with performance, or achieving status.
adj
Having agency; able to make independent decisions in pursuit of a goal.
Example Sentences
- "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)."
- "The next section examines ways in which network and partnership management may be able to reconcile self-organization with agentic intervention."
- "Over the last decade, IoT-enabled objects have steadily progressed from being passive to becoming agentic—actively capturing and storing data, communicating information among objects or with users, and offering suggestions to users."
- "Sometimes agentic systems detect and correct mistakes, but at other times, mistakes compound through multi-agent workflows and may give rise to computational cascades where errors, tool failures, or incomplete data can propagate undetected and enter the final output."
- "As technology advances, A.I.-created travel bots and influencers are likely to become agentic (a term that describes a system that can take an action on its own), said Ari Adnan Cibari, founder at the marketing and technology consultancy AtlasPerk. That could mean an A.I. influencer could, for example, help followers book travel arrangements or make dinner reservations."
- "Most individuals can be easily triggered to enter, and be comfortable in the agentic state."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin agēnsder. English agent Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English agentic From agent + -ic.
Inflected Forms
more agentic (comparative)
most agentic (superlative)