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Agentive vs Agentic - What's the difference?

agentive | agentic |

As adjectives the difference between agentive and agentic

is that agentive is indicating an agent or agency (as -er in lexicographer) while agentic is social cognition theory perspective in which people are producers as well as products of social systems.

As a noun agentive

is a word having this construction.

agentive

English

(wikipedia agentive)

Adjective

(-)
  • (linguistics) Indicating an agent or agency (as -er in lexicographer).
  • (linguistics) Pertaining to a grammatical agent that performs the action of the verb.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) A word having this construction.

    • Anagrams

    * negative

    See also

    * patientive ----

    agentic

    English

    (Agency)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Social cognition theory perspective in which people are producers as well as products of social systems.
  • Milgram's theory about the agentic state which is the psychological state the obedient subject is in when he or she is obeying authority.

    • Related terms

    * agency