ontologist

English

Etymology

From ontology +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst

Noun

ontologist (plural ontologists)

1. (philosophy) A scholar or theorist of ontology, or an adherent of a particular ontological doctrine.
   • 2008 August 12, Luca Moretti, “The ontological status of minimal entities”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 1, →DOI:

     On the other hand, nominalists and parsimonious ontologists who do not believe in the existence of properties, facts and abstract entities do stick to these colloquial usages of ‘property’ and ‘fact’ grounded in principles as platitudinous as [i]–[iii] without apparent problems.

Related terms

• ontological
• ontologically
• ontology

Translations

scholar or theorist of ontology

French: ontologiste (fr) m or f German: Ontologe m, Ontologin f Italian: ontologista m or f Occitan: ontologista m or f Polish: ontolog m Romanian: ontolog (ro) m, ontologist (ro) m Spanish: ontologista m or f

Anagrams

• tonologist

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ontologiste.

Noun

ontologist m (plural ontologiști)

1. ontologist

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	ontologist	ontologistul		ontologiști	ontologiștii
genitive-dative	ontologist	ontologistului		ontologiști	ontologiștilor
vocative	ontologistule			ontologiștilor