Meaning

1 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)The capacity to know everything.

    Near-synonyms: all-seeingness, omnividence

    Many people believe in God's omniscience.

    Allwissenheit

    всеве́дениеvsevédenije

    всезнання́vseznannjá, усезнання́useznannjá

More definitions
  • the state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Big Data is striving for omniscience.

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Translations

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capacity to know everything:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: omnisciences
Singularomniscience
Pluralomnisciences

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
all-seeingnessomnividence

Word family

6 related words
Relatedomniscientall-knowingomnipotenceomnipresence
Derivednonomnisciencesuperomniscience

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
omitomnipotentomnipresentomniscientomnivoreomnivorous
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