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patiency rare.|ˈpeɪʃənsɪ|
[f. patient (after agency): see -ency.]
The quality or condition of being patient or passive: see patient a. 3, n. 4.
1697J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 217 Which..has the truest Notion of Agency in it, without any Mixture of Patiency; because the Body moved cannot re-act upon it. 1813–21Bentham Ontology Wks. 1843 VIII. 207/1 They are each one of them agent and patient at the same time. No one exhibits more of agency, no one more of patiency, than any other. a1832― Logic ibid. 228/2. |