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all-seeingness

all-seeingness

English

Noun

all-seeingness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being all-seeing.
    • 2001, Roberto Harari, Lacan's Seminar on Anxiety: An Introduction, Other Press (2001), ISBN 9781590516553, unnumbered page:
      The notion of pan-opticon—as used by Jeremy Bentham—comes from this presumption of all-seeingness proper to the Supreme Being.
    • 2009, Prince Sorie Conteh, Traditionalists, Muslims, and Christians in Africa: Interreligious Encounters and Dialogue, Cambria Press (2009), ISBN 9781604975963, page 60:
      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.
    • 2011, Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements, Viking (2011), ISBN 9780141919263, unnumbered page:
      How do its values relate to the values of the camera's eye, its truthfulness and all-seeingness?

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