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agentic

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.

(psychology, by extension, of a psychological state of a person) that obeys authority (introduced in Milgram's theory).
Most individuals can be easily triggered to enter, and be comfortable in the agentic state.

(psychology) Having to do with performance, or achieving status.

(psychology) Having agency; able to make independent decisions in pursuit of a goal.
Billy was agentic in his learning and didn't only do what the teacher told him.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well. Richard Rohr

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