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omnisentience

omnisentience

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Noun

omnisentience (uncountable)

  1. (religion) Sensory awareness of all things.
    • 1972, Horace G. Whittington, Clinical Practice in Community Mental Health Centers, page 119:
      In professional training programs, our strivings for omniscience, omnipotence, and omnisentience are stimulated, reinforced, and rewarded by the programs' faculties.
  2. (religion, philosophy) The presence of sensory awareness in all things, or the doctrine that sensory awareness is universal.
    • 1974, Richard Spilsbury, Providence Lost: A Critique of Darwinism, page 65:
      Similar difficulties arise concerning the genesis of consciousness for the individual [] To escape these perplexities, the notion of omnisentience or panpsychism has often been put forward.

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