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ontical

ontical adjective: of or relating to ontology.

Adjective

ontical (comparative more ontical, superlative most ontical)

  1. Of or relating to ontology.
  2. Pertaining to being generally, as opposed to some theory of it (which would be ontology).
    • 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, Univ of Chicago Press, →ISBN

Forms of ontical

comparativemore ontical
superlativemost ontical

Questions about ontical

What does ontical mean?
Ontical means of or relating to ontology.
What part of speech is ontical?
Ontical is an adjective.

Words near ontical in the dictionary

  1. Ontario Lacus
  2. Ontario violet
  3. Ontario violets
  4. ontazolast
  5. ontic
  6. ontical
  7. ontically
  8. onticities
  9. onticity
  10. Ontiveros
  11. Ontiveroses

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