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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

ontological en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˌɒntəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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Etymology

Etymology tree English ontology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English ontological From ontology + -ical.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to ontology.
    • Applying a critical discourse analysis to MM, this thesis argues that far-right media portrays any challenge to the status quo, be it demographic, political, cultural, or social, as threatening to ontological security by utilizing a Positive Self and Negative Other dichotomy. 2020 May 3, Julien Morein, “Murdoch Murdoch: A Case Study in Threats to Ontological Security in Far-Right Propaganda”, in Arcadia University, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2021, page 2:
    • That the ruling ideology must be strictly materialist was ensured by Marxist tradition and by the need to combat religious thought in all its forms as an obstacle to revolution, as well as to avoid an ontologically neutral philosophy. 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 465:
    • A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put in three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: ‘What is there?’ It can be answered, moreover, in a word—‘Everything’—and everyone will accept this answer as true. 1948, W.v.O. Quine, On What There Is:
  2. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to the nature of being or existence.
    • Such is the human ontological imagination, and such is the convincingness of what it brings to birth. Unpicturable beings are realized, and realized with an intensity almost like that of an hallucination. 1902, William James, “Lecture 3”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:

Deriveds

unontological · preontological · ontological shock · ontological argument · ontologically · nonontological · ontological proof

Relateds

ontic

Translations (27)

sv ontologisk (of, or relating to, ontology) · it ontologico (of, or relating to, ontology) · be анталагі́чны (of, or relating to, ontology) · pt ontológico (of, or relating to, ontology) · nl ontologisch (of, or relating to, ontology) · yi אָנטאָלאָגיש (of, or relating to, ontology) · cs ontologický (of, or relating to, ontology) · da ontologisk (of, or relating to, ontology) · cy ontolegol (of, or relating to, ontology) · gl ontolóxico (of, or relating to, ontology) · ht ontolojik (of, or relating to, ontology) · fr ontologique (of, or relating to, ontology) · ast ontolóxicu (of, or relating to, ontology) · ru онтологи́ческий (of, or relating to, ontology) · uk онтологі́чний (of, or relating to, ontology) · pl ontologiczny (of, or relating to, ontology) · de ontologisch (of, or relating to, ontology) · fi ontologinen (of, or relating to, ontology) · sh ontòloškī (of, or relating to, ontology) · hu ontológiai (of, or relating to, ontology) · nl met betrekking tot het zijnde (of, or relating to, ontology) · es ontológico (of, or relating to, ontology) · ca ontològic (of, or relating to, ontology) · ro ontologic (of, or relating to, ontology) · ka ონტოლოგიური (of, or relating to, ontology) · cmn 存在论的 (of, or relating to, ontology) · lv ontoloģisks (of, or relating to, ontology)