Why this word is great
AGENTICITY — [Noun] The cognitive bias of attributing events or patterns to the conscious action of an agent, even when no such agency exists. From agent (from Latin *agere*, "to do, drive") + the suffix -icity (forming nouns denoting a state or condition), coined by the science historian Michael Shermer. Unlike "apophenia," which is the cold perception of connections in randomness, or "pareidolia," which is the seeing of specific faces, agenticity is the warm, narrative leap to a *who*—the decisive inference of a will. It is the conviction that the rustle in the grass is a predator, the belief that a streak of luck is a deity's favor, the overwhelming sense in a silent forest that you are being watched. We are creatures tragically wired to prefer a world of purposeful actors to a universe of indifferent chance, peopling the void with a lonely presumption of company.