omniscience
nounUS /ɑmˈnɪʃəns/ · UK /ɒmˈnɪsiəns/
Etymology From Medieval Latin omniscientia (“all-knowledge”), from Latin omni- (“all”), and scient from the Latin scientia (“knowledge”).
1
The capacity to know everything.
- Near-synonyms: all-seeingness, omnividence
- Many people believe in God's omniscience.
1 more example
- 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?1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 15, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- nonomniscience, superomniscience
- Related terms
- omniscient, all-knowing, omnipotence, omnipresence