omniscient

See also: Omniscient

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin omnisciens (“all-knowing”), from Latin omnis (“all”) + sciens (“knowing”) (further analysable via scient).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɒmˈnɪsɪənt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɑmˈnɪʃənt/
• Rhymes: -ɪʃənt, -ɪsɪənt

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

omniscient (not comparable)

1. Having total knowledge.

   The story was narrated from an omniscient point of view.

   The Abrahamic God is omniscient.

   • 1992, Douglas Adams, chapter 17, in Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 155:

     For me, anything is possible. I am omniscient and omnipotent, extremely vain, and, what is more, I come in a handy self-carrying package.

Synonyms

• all-knowing

Derived terms

• omniscient narrator

 

Related terms

• omnipotent, omnibenevolent, omnipresent, omniscience

Translations

having total knowledge

• Arabic: بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عَلِيمٌ (bikulli šayʔin ʕalīmun)
• Armenian: ամենագետ (hy) (amenaget)
• Belarusian: усёве́дны (usjovjédny)
• Bulgarian: всезна́ещ (bg) (vseznáešt)
• Catalan: omniscient (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 全知的 (zh) (quánzhì de)

• Czech: vševědoucí (cs)
• Danish: alvidende
• Dutch: alwetend (nl)
• Esperanto: ĉioscia
• Faroese: alvitandi
• Finnish: kaikkitietävä (fi)
• French: omniscient (fr)
• Georgian: ყოვლისმცოდნე (q̇ovlismcodne)
• German: allwissend (de)
• Greek: παντογνώστης (el) (pantognóstis)
• Hungarian: mindentudó (hu)
• Icelandic: alvitur (is)
• Indonesian: maha tahu
• Irish: uilefheasach
• Italian: onnisciente (it)
• Japanese: 全知の (ja) (ぜんちの, zenchi no)
• Latin: omnisciēns
• Macedonian: сезнаен (seznaen), семудар (semudar)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: allvitende (no)

  Nynorsk: allvitande

• Persian: آگاه از همه چیز, ویسپ آگاه (visp-âgâh)
• Polish: wszechwiedzący (pl), wszystkowiedzący
• Portuguese: onisciente (pt)
• Romanian: omniscient (ro), atotștiutor (ro)
• Russian: всеве́дущий (ru) (vsevéduščij), всезна́ющий (ru) (vseznájuščij)
• Sanskrit: सर्वविद्य (sa) (sarvavidya)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: свѐзнајӯћ

  Roman: svèznajūć

• Slovak: vševedúci
• Spanish: omniscio (es), omnisciente (es), omnisapiente (es)
• Swedish: allvetande (sv)
• Tagalog: taluslahat
• Ukrainian: всезна́ючий (vseznájučyj), всеві́даючий (vsevídajučyj)

Noun

omniscient (plural omniscients)

1. One who has total knowledge.
   • 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Destiny of Nations:

     Those blind omniscients , those almighty slaves , Untenanting creation of its God

Further reading

• “omniscient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “omniscient”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “omniscient”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Catalan

Adjective

omniscient m or f (masculine and feminine plural omniscients)

1. omniscient

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin omniscientem (“all-knowing”), from Latin omnis (“all”) + sciēns (“knowing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔm.ni.sjɑ̃/

• Audio:

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Adjective

omniscient (feminine omnisciente, masculine plural omniscients, feminine plural omniscientes)

1. omniscient

Related terms

• omniscience

See also

• omnipotent
• omniprésent

Further reading

• “omniscient”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French omniscient, from Medieval Latin omnisciens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌom.ni.st͡ʃiˈent/
• Hyphenation: om‧ni‧sci‧ent

Adjective

omniscient m or n (feminine singular omniscientă, masculine plural omniscienți, feminine and neuter plural omnisciente)

1. omniscient

   Synonym: atotștiutor

Declension

Declension of omniscient

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	omniscient		omniscientă	omniscienți	omnisciente
	definite	omniscientul		omniscienta	omniscienții	omniscientele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	omniscient		omnisciente	omniscienți	omnisciente
	definite	omniscientului		omniscientei	omniscienților	omniscientilor

Related terms

• omnisciență

References

• omniscient in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)