omniscient
[om-nish-uh nt]
- having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things.
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- an omniscient being.
- the Omniscient, God.
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Origin of omniscient
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Contemporary Examples
Dora is seen getting dressed as a mermaid by a cursor being manned by some omniscient game player.
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January 8, 2015
Problem witnesses come in two stripes: omniscient and universal.
Historical Examples
Because He is omniscient, and we cannot hide anything from Him, not even our thoughts.
An Explanation of Luther's Small CatechismJoseph Stump
Hetty would have liked to be omniscient that she might procure for him all he could desire.
Hetty's Strange HistoryAnonymous
Does not your omniscient brother appear to you to have made a mistake?
EuthydemusPlato
That is the hobby of all diplomatists; they like people to believe that they are omniscient.
The Memoires of Casanova, CompleteJacques Casanova de Seingalt
She did not even ask me what I meant; as if the greatness of her soul was omniscient.
RomanceJoseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
omniscient
- having infinite knowledge or understanding
- having very great or seemingly unlimited knowledge
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Word Origin
C17: from Medieval Latin omnisciens, from Latin omni- + scīre to know
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Word Origin and History for omniscient
adj.
c.1600, from Modern Latin omniscientem (nominative omnisciens), back-formation from Medieval Latin omniscientia (see omniscience). Related: Omnisciently.
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