omnilinguality
omnilinguality noun: the ability to speak or understand many languages.
Noun
omnilinguality (uncountable)
- The ability to speak or understand many languages.
- Within the midst of its linguistic obscurities, Joyce embeds a few readily recognizable words. By this act is he only playing with a "literary thing," or is he predicting that "time, universality, omnilinguality" is the means by which future human histories will be told?1994, Paul J. Griffiths, On Being Buddha: The Classical Doctrine of Buddhahood, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, pages 116–117
- This type of paradox is fundamental to the Buddhist episteme and informs all aspects of Buddhist discourse. There is the "tension between a buddha’s transcendence and immanence—his location within both nirvāṇa and saṃsāra," John D. Dunne writes, and "Śākyamuni Buddha's involvement in the world as a...1999, Takeuchi Yoshinori, Buddhist Spirituality: Later China, Korea, Japan, and The Modern World, The Crossroad Publishing Company, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, →ISBN, page 391
Origin of omnilinguality
From omnilingual + -ity.
Words formed from omnilinguality
Questions about omnilinguality
- What does omnilinguality mean?
- Omnilinguality means the ability to speak or understand many languages.
- What part of speech is omnilinguality?
- Omnilinguality is a noun.
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