omniscience
AmericanEtymology
Origin of omniscience
1605–15; < Medieval Latin omniscientia, equivalent to Latin omni- omni- + scientia knowledge; science
Example Sentences
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Mr. Easterly is not a friend of rich-world technocrats or top-down dispensers of aid and omniscience who frequently fail to consult the very people—the Third World poor—for whose salvation they get paid handsomely.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
But at the core of wielding power, as she describes it, is a sort of omniscience.
From Slate • Aug. 19, 2024
His sense of omniscience is compensatory and more disturbing than ever.
From Salon • Sep. 21, 2023
But the memoir makes no claim to omniscience.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2023
I feel myself shift, already losing bits of my prenatal omniscience, tumbling toward the blank slate of person- hood.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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