English words starting with ont

Meanings of Ontal:

adjective

Real; noumenal; comprising reality as opposed to mere phenomena; beyond phenomena. occasionally as noun with the: the real.

Meanings of Ontario:

proper noun

A province of eastern canada, between hudson bay and the great lakes; population 12,160,282 (2006); capital, toronto. it was settled by the french and english in the 17th century, ceded to britain in 1763, and became one of the original four provinces in the dominion of canada in 1867.

noun

A province (= a large area that is governed as part of a country) of eastern canada, whose capital city is toronto

Usage examples:

Canada's capital, ottawa, is also the second-largest city in ontario, with a regional population of…

Meanings of Ontic:

adjective

Relating to entities and the facts about them; relating to real as opposed to phenomenal existence.

Usage examples:

Kant is not saying that objects must conform to empirical knowledge, that entities must conform to …

Meanings of Ontically:

adverb

With reference to or in terms of real as opposed to phenomenal existence.

Meanings of Onto:

preposition

Variant form of on to.

Meanings of Ontogenesis:

noun

The development of an individual organism or anatomical or behavioural feature from the earliest stage to maturity.

Usage examples:

Shepard proposes that humans go through eight stages of ontogenesis in their first twenty years of …

Meanings of Ontogenetical:

adjective

Ontogenetic.

Meanings of Ontogeny:

noun

The branch of biology that deals with ontogenesis.

Usage examples:

However helpful this removal can be, there needs also to be a cohesive model of homologies that can…

Meanings of Ontography:

noun

A description of, or the branch of knowledge which deals with, the human response to the natural environment.

Meanings of Ontologic:

adjective

Ontological.

Meanings of Ontological:

adjective

Relating to the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being.

Usage examples:

Ontological arguments

Meanings of Ontologically:

adverb

In a way that relates to ontology (= the study of what it means to exist)

Usage examples:

The pope has stated that priests are ontologically different from the rest of mankind., a distincti…

Meanings of Ontologies:

noun

The branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being.

Usage examples:

For such reasons as these heidegger believes that ontology and phenomenology coincide.

Meanings of Ontologise:

verb

To apply or deal with ontology.

Meanings of Ontologising:

noun

The action of ontologize ; an instance of this.

adjective

That ontologizes; that deals with ontology.

Meanings of Ontologism:

noun

A mystical system based on the belief that god is directly and immediately apprehended by the mind as the first object of human intelligence.

Meanings of Ontologize:

verb

To apply or deal with ontology.

Meanings of Ontology:

noun

The branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being.

Usage examples:

For such reasons as these heidegger believes that ontology and phenomenology coincide.

Meanings of Ontosophy:

noun

Ontology.