OriginFrom Ancient Greek ὄν (ón, “being, existing, essence”) (stem ὄντ- (ónt-)) + -ic.
- 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 q”
Formsmore ontic(comparative) · most ontic(superlative)