ontological
/ˌɒntəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.73 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to the nature of being or existence.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
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.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˌɒntəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/