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omnicognizance

omnicognizance noun: awareness of everything.

Noun

omnicognizance (uncountable)

  1. Awareness of everything.
    • In consequence of that omnipresence, we may infer that He is cognizant of every alteration of each respective particle of matter, which omnicognizance is called the omniscience of the Deity.1843, Alfred Smee, “On the Relation of the Material to the Immaterial”, in The Sources of Physical Science. Being an Introduction to the Study of Physiology through Physics. […], London: Henry...
    • It is just as well that man has always had at least a germ of faith in his omnipotence and omnicognizance.1938, Henry A[lexander] Murray, “Introduction”, in Harvard Psychological Clinic, Explorations in Personality: A Clinical and Experimental Study of Fifty Men of College Age, New York, N.Y.: Oxford...

Examples of omnicognizance in a sentence

  • No wonder, then, that the disc gods spend more time in bickering than in omnicognizance.1983, Terry Pratchett, “The Sending of Eight”, in The Colour of Magic (Discworld; 1), New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 57:
  • Devotees recite texts or prayers extolling the exceptional qualities of the deity such as omnipotence, omnicognizance and omniscience in physical imagery during worship.1998, Natubhai Shah, “Supernormal Forms of Knowledge”, in “Jain Logic”, in Jainism: The World of Conquerors, volume 2, Brighton, East...
  • Given the identity Maistre posits between pope and church, papal omnipresence and omnicognizance signify the ecclesiastical suffusion of the world with reason.2011, Carolina Armenteros, “The Universal Reason of Ecclesiastical Authority”, in “A Europeanist Theory of History: Du pape”, in The French...

Origin of omnicognizance

From omni- + cognizance.

Questions about omnicognizance

What does omnicognizance mean?
Omnicognizance means awareness of everything.
How do you use omnicognizance in a sentence?
No wonder, then, that the disc gods spend more time in bickering than in omnicognizance.
What part of speech is omnicognizance?
Omnicognizance is a noun.

Words near omnicognizance in the dictionary

  1. omnichannel
  2. omnichromatic
  3. omnicidal
  4. omnicide
  5. omnicides
  6. omnicognizance
  7. omnicognizant
  8. omnicomparativist
  9. omnicompetence
  10. omnicompetences
  11. omnicompetent

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