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語源

From Medieval Latin omniscientia (“all-knowledge”), from Latin omni- (“all”), and scient from the Latin scientia (“knowledge”).

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ɑmˈnɪʃəns/
• (英国発音) IPA: /ɒmˈnɪsiəns/

名詞

omniscience (countable and uncountable, plural omnisciences)

1. The capacity to know everything.

   Near-synonyms: all-seeingness, omnividence

   Many people believe in God's omniscience.

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 15, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     If, a few pages back, the present writer claimed the privilege of peeping into Miss Amelia Sedley's bedroom, and understanding with the omniscience the novelist all the gentle pains and passions which were tossing upon that innocent pillow, why should he not declare himself to be Rebecca's confidante too, master of her secrets, and seal-keeper of that young woman's conscience?

   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 245:

     However, his main point is clearly that the political organization should be subordinate to the real aspirations of the working class and should not be allowed to claim that it expresses those aspirations by virtue of its own 'scientific' omniscience, regardless of what the empirical 'masses' actually think.

派生語

関連する語

• omniscient

参考

Further reading

• “omniscience”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “omniscience”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “omniscience”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “omniscience”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.