EGAVE

ontic

About 0.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Ontological.
  2. adjective Pertaining to being, as opposed to pertaining to a theory of it (which would be ontological). Existing in the world, but not characteristic about being itself.
    Is time ontic or ontological?
  3. adjective Existing in the world, but not characteristic about being itself.
    Is time ontic or ontological?

Similar words

ontologic ontological ontical ontologistic ontoepistemological ontographic ontographical ontotheological oological ontogenetic

Often followed by

and status evil level reality or commitment sense structure

Word family

ontically

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