ontic
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Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek ὄν (ón, “being, existing, essence”) (stem ὄντ- (ónt-)) + -ic.
Adjective edit
ontic (comparative more ontic, superlative most ontic)
- Ontological.
- Pertaining to being, as opposed to pertaining to a theory of it (which would be ontological).
- 2015, Bill Brown, Other Things, Univ of Chicago Press, →ISBN:
- My descriptions are ontical—addressing the world we inhabit, the what and where and how and why of objects therein; my questions are not ontological in the sense of struggling (vainly) to answer the question of the being of things tout court.
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pertaining to being
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Adjective edit
ontic m or n (feminine singular ontică, masculine plural ontici, feminine and neuter plural ontice)