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omnisentience

omnisentience noun: sensory awareness of all things.

Noun

omnisentience (uncountable)

  1. Sensory awareness of all things.
    • In professional training programs, our strivings for omniscience, omnipotence, and omnisentience are stimulated, reinforced, and rewarded by the programs' faculties.1972, Horace G. Whittington, Clinical Practice in Community Mental Health Centers, page 119
  2. The presence of sensory awareness in all things, or the doctrine that sensory awareness is universal.
    • Similar difficulties arise concerning the genesis of consciousness for the individual […] To escape these perplexities, the notion of omnisentience or panpsychism has often been put forward.1974, Richard Spilsbury, Providence Lost: A Critique of Darwinism, page 65

Origin of omnisentience

From omni- + sentience.

Questions about omnisentience

What does omnisentience mean?
Omnisentience means sensory awareness of all things.
What part of speech is omnisentience?
Omnisentience is a noun.

Words near omnisentience in the dictionary

  1. omniscientist
  2. omniscientists
  3. omnisciently
  4. omniscients
  5. omniscious
  6. omnisentience
  7. omnisentient
  8. omnisexual
  9. omnisexuality
  10. omnisexually
  11. omnishambles

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