all-seeingness
nounEtymology From all-seeing + -ness.
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The state or quality of being all-seeing.
- Near-synonym: omniscience
- The notion of pan-opticon—as used by Jeremy Bentham—comes from this presumption of all-seeingness proper to the Supreme Being.2001, Roberto Harari, Lacan's Seminar on Anxiety: An Introduction, Other Press, published 2001, →ISBN:
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- These two attributes, along with the other four identified — omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, and all-seeingness — portray God's character and abilities, as well as the qualities of his nature.2009, Prince Sorie Conteh, Traditionalists, Muslims, and Christians in Africa: Interreligious Encounters and Dialogue, Cambria Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 60:
- How do its values relate to the values of the camera's eye, its truthfulness and all-seeingness?2011, Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements, Viking, published 2011, →ISBN:
- Related terms
- all-knowing, all-seeing eye