omnicompetent

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21
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27
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13
Pronunciation
/ˌɒmniˈkɒmpɪtənt/

Definition of omnicompetent

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Competent in every area.
    “Granted, management is not omnicompetent; that is why it must rely on the expertise of the workers. But neither are the workers omnicompetent.”
    “To Lippmann, democratic theory presented an idealized vision of omnicompetent citizens capable of making informed decisions leading to wise laws and good government, a condition that plainly did not obtain.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Competent in every area.
    “Granted, management is not omnicompetent; that is why it must rely on the expertise of the workers. But neither are the workers omnicompetent.”
    “To Lippmann, democratic theory presented an idealized vision of omnicompetent citizens capable of making informed decisions leading to wise laws and good government, a condition that plainly did not obtain.”
  2. (especially, not-comparable)Competent in every area.
    “Near-synonyms: plenipotent, plenipotentiary”
    “The omnicompetent state admittedly works badly at times, but it does work, which is more than the impotent "commune" would be likely to do.”
    “Are the judgments of public opinion inevitably "right" or even relatively wise, or are they merely the resultants of the delusions, prejudices, and inadequacies of the supposedly omnicompetent citizen exercising his "right divine of the ignorant to govern wrong"?”
    “Soon after the Bolshevik Revolution, the image of the future omnicompetent, endlessly mobile man was restated by Bukharin and Preobrazhensky in their political primer, The ABC of Communism.”

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Etymology

From omni- + competent.

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