omniscience

English

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Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ɑmˈnɪʃəns/

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• (UK) IPA: /ɒmˈnɪʃəns/

Etymology

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

Noun

omniscience (uncountable)

1. The capacity to know everything.

Related terms

• omniscient

Translations

capacity to know everything

• Catalan: omnisciència (ca) f
• Czech: vševědoucnost (cs) f
• Dutch: alwetendheid (nl) f
• Finnish: kaikkitietävyys (fi)
• French: omniscience (fr)
• German: Allwissenheit (de) f
• Icelandic: alviska (is) f

• Irish: uilefhios (ga) m
• Italian: onniscienza (it)
• Macedonian: сезнајност (mk) (séznajnost) f
• Polish: wszechwiedza (pl) f
• Russian: всеведение (ru) (vs'ev'éd'enije) n
• Serbian: sveznanje (sh), sveznalaštvo (sh)
• Spanish: omnisciencia (es) f

External links

• omniscience in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• omniscience in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• omniscience at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “omniscience” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).

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French

Etymology

Medieval Latin omniscientia.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɔm.ni.sjɑ̃s/, X-SAMPA: /Om.ni.sja~s@/
• Homophone: omnisciences
• Hyphenation: om‧ni‧science

Noun

omniscience f (plural omnisciences)

1. omniscience