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AGENTIC
Definition of AGENTIC
adjective
That behaves like an agent: able to express or expressing agency or control on one's own behalf or on the behalf of another. Acting autonomously on behalf of a user; involving the use of agentic AI.
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Other senses
AGENTIC carries 2 further meanings.
adjective
Social cognition theory perspective in which people are producers as well as products of social systems.
adjective
Milgram's theory about the agentic state which is the psychological state the obedient subject is in when he or she is obeying authority.
Where it comes from
From agent + -ic.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
AGENTIC in a sentence
“They use the non-gendered terms "agentic" versus "communal" to describe two common but different leadership styles.”
Andrea Learned: In 2011, Sustainability Will Force the De-Gendering of Business Leadership, 2011
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
AGENTIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 35 boards so far. 155 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
AGENTIC starts with A and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read ACEGINT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start AGENTI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found AGENTIC?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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