Meanings
- not comparableOf or relating to ontology.
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 4652 more examples
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 IsApplying 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 - not comparableOf 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
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁es-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁sónts
- Proto-Hellenic*ehonts
- Ancient Greekὤν, ὄντος (ṓn, óntos)
- Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
- Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
- Proto-Hellenic*lógos
- Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
- New Latinontologia
- Englishontology
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishontological
Translations
Catalan ontològic
- ontològicof, or relating to, ontology
Chinese Mandarin 存在论的
- 存在论的 (Cúnzàilùnde)of, or relating to, ontology
Czech ontologický
- ontologickýof, or relating to, ontology
Danish ontologisk
- ontologiskof, or relating to, ontology
Dutch ontologisch, met betrekking tot het zijnde
- ontologischof, or relating to, ontology
- met betrekking tot het zijndeof, or relating to, ontology
Finnish ontologinen
- ontologinenof, or relating to, ontology
French ontologique
- ontologiqueof, or relating to, ontology
German ontologisch
- ontologischof, or relating to, ontology
Hungarian ontológiai
- ontológiaiof, or relating to, ontology
Italian ontologico
- ontologicoof, or relating to, ontology
Japanese 存在論的
- 存在論的of, or relating to, ontology
Latvian ontoloģisks
- ontoloģisksof, or relating to, ontology
Polish ontologiczny
- ontologicznyof, or relating to, ontology
Portuguese ontológico
- ontológicoof, or relating to, ontology
Romanian ontologic
- ontologicof, or relating to, ontology
Russian онтологи́ческий
- онтологи́ческий (ontologíčeskij)of, or relating to, ontology
Spanish ontológico
- ontológicoof, or relating to, ontology
Swedish ontologisk
- ontologiskof, or relating to, ontology
Ukrainian онтологі́чний
- онтологі́чний (ontolohíčnyj)of, or relating to, ontology
Welsh ontolegol
- ontolegolof, or relating to, ontology
Yiddish אָנטאָלאָגיש
- אָנטאָלאָגיש (ontologish)of, or relating to, ontology
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Cite this entry
ontological. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ontological
“ontological.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ontological. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ontological,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ontological.
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