omniscience

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
22
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ɑmˈnɪʃəns/(US)
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/ɑmˈnɪʃəns/(US) · /ɒmˈnɪsiəns/(UK)

Definition of omniscience

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The capacity to know everything.
    “Near-synonyms: all-seeingness, omnividence”
    “Many people believe in God's omniscience.”
    “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?”

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Etymology

From Medieval Latin omniscientia (“all-knowledge”), from Latin omni- (“all”), and scient from the Latin scientia (“knowledge”).

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