What does omniscience mean?
Definitions for omniscience
ɒmˈnɪʃ ənsom·ni·science
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Princeton's WordNet
omnisciencenoun
the state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge
Wiktionary
omnisciencenoun
The capacity to know everything.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Omniscience, Omnisciencynoun
Boundless knowledge; infinite wisdom.
Etymology: omnis and scientia, Lat.
In all this misconstruction of my actions, as I have no judge but God above me, so I can have comfort to appeal to his omniscience. Charles I .
Thinking by this retirement to obscure himself from God, he infringed the omnisciency and essential ubiquity of his maker, who as he created all things, so is he beyond and in them all. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. i.
An immense being does strangely fill the soul; and omnipotency, omnisciency, and infinite goodness, enlarge the spirit while it fixtly looks upon them. Burnet.
Since thou boast’st th’ omniscience of a God,
Say in what cranny of Sebastian’s soul,
Unknown to me, so loath’d a crime is lodg’d? Dryden.
Wikipedia
Omniscience
Omniscience () is the capacity to know everything. In Hinduism, Sikhism and the Abrahamic religions, this is an attribute of God. In Jainism, omniscience is an attribute that any individual can eventually attain. In Buddhism, there are differing beliefs about omniscience among different schools.
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omniscience
Omniscience is the state or quality of having unlimited knowledge or understanding about everything. It's often associated with a divine or supernatural being, such as God, who is believed to possess complete, infinite and universal knowledge. In a broader sense, it can also refer to a person's ability to know or learn everything about a particular topic or field.
Wikidata
Omniscience
Omniscience, mainly in religion, is the capacity to know everything that there is to know. In particular, Hinduism and the Abrahamic religions believe that there is a divine being who is omniscient. An omniscient point-of-view, in writing, is to know everything that can be known about a character, including past history, thoughts, feelings, etc. In Latin, omnis means "all" and sciens means "knowing".
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of omniscience in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of omniscience in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of omniscience in a Sentence
Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.
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- كلي العلمArabic
- omnisciènciaCatalan, Valencian
- vševědoucnostCzech
- alvidenhedDanish
- AllwissenheitGerman
- ĉioscioEsperanto
- omniscienciaSpanish
- همه چیزPersian
- kaikkitietävyysFinnish
- omniscienceFrench
- uilefhiosIrish
- सर्व-ज्ञानीHindi
- kemahatahuanIndonesian
- alviskaIcelandic
- onniscienzaItalian
- omniscientia,Latin
- сезнајностMacedonian
- alwetendheidDutch
- allvitenhetNorwegian
- wszechwiedzaPolish
- onisciênciaPortuguese
- omnisciențăRomanian
- всеведениеRussian
- sveznalaštvo, sveznanjeSerbo-Croatian
- allvetenhetSwedish
- אָמניססיענסעYiddish
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