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omnilinguality

omnilinguality noun: the ability to speak or understand many languages.

Noun

omnilinguality (uncountable)

  1. 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.

Words near omnilinguality in the dictionary

  1. omnilateral
  2. omnilaterality
  3. omnilaterally
  4. omnilegent
  5. omnilingual
  6. omnilinguality
  7. omnilinguals
  8. omnilinguist
  9. omnilinguists
  10. omniloquent
  11. omnilucent

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