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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ontology /ɒnˈtɒlədʒi/

▶noun the branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature of being.

– derivatives
ontological adjective,
ontologically adverb,
ontologist noun.

– origin C18: from mod. L. ontologia, from Gk ōn, ont- ‘being’ + -logy.

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