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agenthood

agenthood noun: the quality of being an agent.

Noun

agenthood (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being an agent.
    • That is, besides the usual epistemic operators which take care of agenthood, modal operator epistemology also includes temporal operators to deal with dynamic phenomena, and alethic operators to handle forcing strategies.2008 October 22, Patrick Allo, “Vincent Hendricks, Mainstream and Formal Epistemology”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI

Origin of agenthood

From agent + -hood.

Questions about agenthood

What does agenthood mean?
Agenthood means the quality of being an agent.
What part of speech is agenthood?
Agenthood is a noun.

Words near agenthood in the dictionary

  1. agentes provocateuses
  2. agentes provocatrices
  3. agentese
  4. agentess
  5. agentesses
  6. agenthood
  7. agential
  8. agentially
  9. agentials
  10. agentic
  11. agentic AI

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