ontic
adjective
ontic is an adjective meaning “Ontological” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-N-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does ontic mean?
adjective
- 1
Ontological.
- 2
Pertaining to being, as opposed to pertaining to a theory of it (which would be ontological).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ontic
- more ontic comparative
- most ontic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ontic?
Ontic appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Ontic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pertaining to being:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does ontic come from?
From Ancient Greek ὄν (ón, “being, existing, essence”) (stem ὄντ- (ónt-)) + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).