ontic
ontic adjective: ontological.
Adjective
ontic (comparative more ontic, superlative most ontic)
- Ontological.
- Pertaining to being, as opposed to pertaining to a theory of it (which would be ontological).
- 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.2015, Bill Brown, Other Things, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN
ontic meaning in Urdu
ontic in Urdu
- حیاتی, وجودی
Forms of ontic
| comparative | more ontic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most ontic |
Origin of ontic
From Ancient Greek ὄν (ón, “being, existing, essence”) (stem ὄντ- (ónt-)) + -ic.
Words formed from ontic
Questions about ontic
- What does ontic mean?
- Ontic means ontological.
- What is ontic in Urdu?
- Ontic in Urdu is حیاتی, وجودی. See Ontic meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is ontic?
- Ontic is an adjective.
Words near ontic in the dictionary
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