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Ontological

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th 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.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of, or relating to, ontology.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to ontology.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of or pertaining to ontology; of the nature of ontology; metaphysical.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. of or relating to ontology

Word Usage

"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."

Cross Reference

ontological proof

Form

ontological argument ontological shock

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

archaeological archeological astrological biological biotechnological

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

methodological geopolitical cosmological foundational anthropic