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omnicognizant

omnicognizant adjective: aware of everything.

Adjective

omnicognizant (not comparable)

  1. Aware of everything.
    • In the first half of the nineteenth century, the policy instituted under the early Ch’ien-lung reforms of Hupeh Governor Yen Ssu-sheng governed the selection and appointment of the omnicognizant Hankow brokers.1984, William T[ownsend] Rowe, “The State and Commerce”, in Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796–1889, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, part I (The Emporium), page...
    • The omnicognizant Howard Haycraft, in his Murder for Pleasure, wrote two pages on this very subject.1993, Marilis Hornidge, “Backgrounders”, in “Traditional Mysteries”, in Ed Gorman, Martin H[arry] Greenberg, Larry Segriff, Jon L[inn] Breen, editors, The Fine Art of Murder: The Mystery Reader’s...

Examples of omnicognizant in a sentence

  • In the opening phase, the family perceives the therapist as the healer and the mediator, and as being omnicognizant.1993, Richard Sloves, Karen Belinger Peterlin, “Family Meeting”, in “Where in the World is . . . My Father? A Time-Limited Play Therapy”...
  • And he was omnicognizant, but just enough to know that while he did indeed know everything it wasn't the whole Everything, just the part of it that applied to his island.1998, Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent (Discworld; 22), New York, N.Y.: HarperPrism, published March 1999, →ISBN, page 100:
  • He hath chosen Mohammed by His knowledge as He is the omniscient and the omnicognizant.1999, Mohammad Redha, interpreted by Mohammad Agha, “Abdullah Ibn Abbas’s reply to Mou’awya’s speech”, in Al-Hasan and al-Hussein: The Two...
  • Some describe God as omnipotent (all-powerful), omniscient (all-seeing), omnicognizant (all-knowing), and omnipresent (present-in-everything).2000, Shakuntala Modi, “Presence of God in the Universe”, in Memories of God and Creation: Remembering from the Subconscious Mind...

Origin of omnicognizant

From omni- + cognizant.

Questions about omnicognizant

What does omnicognizant mean?
Omnicognizant means aware of everything.
How do you use omnicognizant in a sentence?
In the opening phase, the family perceives the therapist as the healer and the mediator, and as being omnicognizant.
What part of speech is omnicognizant?
Omnicognizant is an adjective.

Words near omnicognizant in the dictionary

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

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