METAPHYSICS

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Meaning:

The philosophical study of being and knowing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("metaphysics" is a kind of...):

philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)

Domain member category:

hypostasis ((metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality)

entelechy ((Aristotle) the state of something that is fully realized; actuality as opposed to potentiality)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "metaphysics"):

ontology (the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence)

cosmology (the metaphysical study of the origin and nature of the universe)

Derivation:

metaphysical (pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics)