ontologist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A scholar or theorist of ontology, or an adherent of a particular ontological doctrine.
Example Sentences
- "On the other hand, nominalists and parsimonious ontologists who do not believe in the existence of properties, facts and abstract entities do stick to these colloquial usages of ‘property’ and ‘fact’ grounded in principles as platitudinous as [i]–[iii] without apparent problems."
Etymology
Etymology tree English ontology Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English ontologist From ontology + -ist.