Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to ontology.
- adj. Of or relating to essence or the nature of being.
- adj. Of or relating to the argument for the existence of God holding that the existence of the concept of God entails the existence of God.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to ontology; of the nature of ontology; metaphysical.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, or relating to, ontology.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to ontology.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to ontology
Examples
“Because Down syndrome is determined at conception and leaves its imprint in every cell of the person's body, it raises what philosophers call ontological questions.”
“Others still could be said to go a step further, basing their faith in ontological arguments for the a priori truth of God’s existence.”
“Like the "Arab Spring", it is led by young people who have lost what sociologist Anthony Giddens calls "ontological security" -- the mental stability that depends on a sense of continuity of the world and the future.”
“We now know quite a bit about the human mind, how it constrains our imaginations by forcing information into boxes called ontological categories, and what kinds of cognitive errors (including projection) it is prone to.”
The Huffington Post: Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: Why the Biblical God Is So Human (Part 1)
“We now know quite a bit about the human mind, how it constrains our imaginations by forcing information into boxes called ontological categories, and what kinds of cognitive errors including projection it is prone to.”
The Huffington Post: Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: Why the Biblical God Is So Human (Part 1)
“Iago expresses his philosophy in what Harold Bloom has referred to as the ontological negation, "I am not what I am.”
Robert David Jaffee: Human Nature, Not Mental Illness, Accounts for Fort Hood Shooting
“Once we clear the mind of the idea of ontological blemishes, however, we can begin to look at things pragmatically.”
“He argues that we should look again at the notion of ontological change that occurs at ordination: priests are made different, while at the same time eschewing applications that make it elitist and exclusive.”
“At this point, the idea of ontological difference comes at play as a form of veiling and unveiling something about the beings that are in the world.”
“Versions of the Fregean argument are sometimes stated in terms of the notion of ontological commitment.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ontological’.
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phrontistery - o
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oakum, oakus, oast, obambulate, obdormition, obduracy, obedible, obedientiary, obeism, obeliscolychny, obelize, obelus and 504 more...
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discontinued analog cyborg subroutines
my first list
analogue, analog, cyborg, adaptation, survival, accessibility, analog cyborg, brain, brain damage, trauma, traumatic brain i..., tbi and 15 more...
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philosophical adjectives
Common and not-so-common adjectives found while studying philosophy.
dialectic, ontological, logical, theological, empirical, moral, ethical, metaphysical, atheistic, synthetic, monistic, dualistic and 13 more...
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Interesting words
A list of philosophically oriented terms/words that are common vocabulary for philosophers, or spark interesting discussion and thought.
formalisation, phenomenological, experiential, a-priori, aporia, logos, epoche, metaphysics, Other, Same, realism, idealism and 3 more...
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theory and history of art: terms and ...
phenomenological, nonphenomenological, kineticism, mechanizing, digitalizing, utations, trajectory, synthesized, spatio-temporal, proliferation, quantification, iterative and 118 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. II
cicurate, circumforaneous, codger, comiconomenclaturist, constable, contradistinction, contraindicated, counterpane, coxcomb, decalcomania, decanal, decoction and 307 more...
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JesusIsLord's Words
debauchery, plethora, wiki, numinous, wormwood, scribe, gelded, mithridate, orthogonal, jaculiferous, jaculate, jactitation and 415 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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imogen's Words
coagitate, cloche, harum-scarum, foxglove, cryptolect, cant, roux, angora, duff, ulysse, schadenfreude, pepperpot and 315 more...
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parody's Words
defenestrate, behemoth, floss, macchiato, glom, emu, alpaca, crocheted, ampersand, charade, conflate, salacious and 193 more...
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Joe's list
Fissiparous Weekly Standard Nigeria a fissiparous country 3/2012
fissiparous, inchoate, punctilious, synecdoche, apocryphal, superadd, pedant, pedagogy, astigmatic, inter alia, aphoristically, eponymous and 131 more...
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FTL
Words listed first by me that don't belong in any other list.
licit, precis, mnemosyne, badinage, mariposa, lepidoptera, coruscation, poignant, meme, oxymoron, xenophobia, asterism and 128 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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justin's Words
braii, boerewors, lekker, viva, pap, lipodystrophy, lacticacidosis, sharp, chakalaka, defaulter, eish, oof and 256 more...
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Random Words
I clicked random and added all of them to this list.
tagal, krypton, zarzuela, venerable, lichanos, ontological, routhe
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They Roll Off The Tongue
Words that are just fun to say. Entirely subjective, but I like 'em regardless. A complement to the list They Stumble Off The Tongue.
verisimilitude, parsimonious, soliloquy, insipid, ontological, plentifully, je ne sais quoi, misanthropic, bourgeoisie, parallelable, inclemency, frigidity and 159 more...
Tweets
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"Given the ontological authority that the Post shares only with the New York Times. . ." Jul 6, 2007