Noun

(en noun)

(philosophy) A scholar or theorist of ontology, or an adherent of a particular ontological doctrine.

* {{quote-journal, 2008, date=August 12, Luca Moretti, The ontological status of minimal entities, Philosophical Studies, url=, doi=10.1007/s11098-008-9265-6, volume=141, issue=1, pages=

, passage=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.}}

Noun

(en noun)

A doctor specializing in otology.

*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 4, author=Jamie Talan, title=Early Action Proving Crucial to Hearing Success, work=New York Times citation

, passage=“We need to identify children early and provide them with hearing tools and training by the time they are 6 months,” said Dr. John Greinwald, a pediatric otologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. }}

*2012 , (Rupert Christiansen), ‘Quiet, Please’, Literary Review , Sep 2012:

*:Today's teenagers are siphoning dangerous levels of membrane-damaging noise directly into their eardrums, with long-term effects that otologists prophesy will be disastrous for their hearing and lead to an epidemic of middle-aged deafness in the next thirty years.