Definition of "ontic"

ontic

adjective
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).
  Quotations
  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.
  2015, Bill Brown, Other Things, Univ of Chicago Press