ontic.

Concerned with what exists or has being, rather than merely how it is known.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• ontic status
• ontic reality
• ontic commitment

On the page

The argument concerns the avatar's ontic status, not our ability to detect it.

Observational uncertainty did not settle the particles' ontic nature.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi literary / speculative. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Commonness: uncommon (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: Positive dictionary excerpt directly read: of, relating to, or having real being. Philosophical school-specific distinctions are not asserted as universal. Individual usefulness checked for a distinct speculative-writing function. Original definitions and examples; hypothetical theories and fictional applications are not presented as established findings. No inherent mood or intensity is assigned. Writing functions: reality of simulated entities, existence rather than knowledge.