Definition of "patiency" []

• In logic, the quality of being passive; the condition of being acted upon by another: the opposite of agency. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Yet there will be, if teaching and learning are the same, and agency and patiency."
• "Either (a) both are in what is acted on and moved, or (b) the agency is in the agent and the patiency in the patient."
• "To generalize, teaching is not the same as learning, or agency as patiency, in the full sense, though they belong to the same subject, the motion; for the"