omniscience

From Medieval Latin omniscientia (“all-knowledge”), from Latin omni- (“all”), and scient from the Latin scientia (“knowledge”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑmˈnɪʃəns/

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɒmˈnɪsiəns/

omniscience (countable and uncountable, plural omnisciences)

1. The capacity to know everything.

   Many people believe in God's omniscience.

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 15, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     If, a few pages back, the present writer claimed the privilege of peeping into Miss Amelia Sedley's bedroom, and understanding with the omniscience the novelist all the gentle pains and passions which were tossing upon that innocent pillow, why should he not declare himself to be Rebecca's confidante too, master of her secrets, and seal-keeper of that young woman's conscience?

• omniscient

• “omniscience”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “omniscience”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “omniscience”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “omniscience”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

From Medieval Latin omniscientia.

• IPA^(key): /ɔm.ni.sjɑ̃s/
• Homophone: omnisciences
• Hyphenation: om‧ni‧science

omniscience f (plural omnisciences)

1. omniscience

• “omniscience”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.