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ontic

American  
[on-tik] / ˈɒn tɪk /

adjective

Philosophy.
  1. possessing the character of real rather than phenomenal existence; noumenal.


Etymology

Origin of ontic

1940–45; < Greek ont- ( see onto-) + -ic

Example Sentences

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Where religion addresses ontology, science is concerned with ontic description.

From Slate • Jul. 8, 2014

From where I was sitting in a nondescript room in a nondescript hotel, ontic structural realism seemed to be the only one left standing.

From Scientific American • Jan. 31, 2014

My hope in consultation was to offer both a cognitive, as well as, an ontic experience in which a mutual feeling apart from and toward the other would exist.

From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.

Clinical Is A potentially clinical psychiatric mental health situation becomes "clinical" if the clinician relates to the helpee to awaken his unique potential or ontic wholeness, and noetically transcending this relating conceptualizes its meaning.

From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.