ontic

From Ancient Greek ὄν (ón, “being, existing, essence”) (stem ὄντ- (ónt-)) +‎ -ic.

ontic (comparative more ontic, superlative most ontic)

1. Ontological.
2. Pertaining to being, as opposed to pertaining to a theory of it (which would be ontological).
   • 2015, Bill Brown, Other Things, Univ of Chicago Press, →ISBN:

     My descriptions are ontical—addressing the world we inhabit, the what and where and how and why of objects therein; my questions are not ontological in the sense of struggling (vainly) to answer the question of the being of things tout court.

• ontically

• ontological
• ontologist
• ontology

• tonic

Borrowed from French ontique.

ontic m or n (feminine singular ontică, masculine plural ontici, feminine and neuter plural ontice)

1. octic