ontogenetically
- adverb
- /ˌɒntəʊdʒəˈnɛtɪkli/
- Specialized
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ontogenéticamente
- Because of the way Jakobson uses the terms stages and function in this discussion, it is possible to suppose that he is thinking of wild and civilized language as merely functionally or ontogenetically different stages, where the adult mode of language totally displaces the child mode of language and the latter disappears, much as the adult chicken, for example, displaces the egg.
Examples
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During its growth, the butterfly develops various characteristics that are evident ontogenetically.
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However, in biological systems, memory underlies the ability to adapt behavior to experience, and thus, it allows an organism to increase its fitness ontogenetically.
Academic text (2017) -
This principle (motor priority) is so fundamental that virtually all behavior ontogenetically has a motor origin and aspect.
Academic text (2004) -
The researcher studied how the brain develops ontogenetically, from infancy to adulthood.
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In understanding human behavior, psychologists examine how traits manifest ontogenetically over a person's lifetime.
Synonyms
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In a way that relates to how a person grows or learns
About how living things come from earlier forms
Surface Forms
Morphology
ontogenetically = ontogenetic (semi-transparent) = ontogeny + etic + ally
The adverbial form is a regular derivation from the adjective 'ontogenetic' by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ally'.
Etymology
Ontogenetically comes from Greek parts onto- meaning 'being' and -geny meaning 'birth' or 'origin', the same root you see in genetic. So, something that happens ontogenetically happens during a living thing's own growth from early stages to adulthood.