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Webster 1913 Edition

Omniscience

Om-nis′cience

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Noun.

[Cf. F.

omniscience

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The quality or state of being omniscient; the quality of knowing everything; – an attribute peculiar to God.

Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition

Omniscience

OMNIS'CIENCE

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Definition 2024

omniscience

omniscience

English

Noun

omniscience ‎(countable and uncountable, plural omnisciences)

The capacity to know everything.
Many people believe in God's omniscience.

Related terms

omniscient

Translations

capacity to know everything

Catalan: omnisciència f
Czech: vševědoucnost f
Dutch: alwetendheid (nl) f
Finnish: kaikkitietävyys
French: omniscience (fr)
German: Allwissenheit (de) f
Icelandic: alviska (is) f
Irish: uilefhios m

Italian: onniscienza (it)
Macedonian: сезнајност f ‎(séznajnost)
Polish: wszechwiedza f
Portuguese: omnisciência f (Portugal), onisciência f (Brazil)
Russian: всеве́дение (ru) n ‎(vsevédenije)
Serbo-Croatian: sveznanje, sveznalaštvo
Spanish: omnisciencia (es) f
Tagalog: pagkataluslahat

External links

omniscience in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
omniscience in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
omniscience at OneLook Dictionary Search
“omniscience” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).

French

Etymology

Medieval Latin omniscientia.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

omniscience f ‎(plural omnisciences)

omniscience