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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɒmˈnɪsɪənt/
• (General American) IPA: /ɑmˈnɪʃənt/
• 韻: -ɪʃənt, -ɪsɪənt

形容詞

omniscient (not comparable)

1. Having total knowledge.

   Synonym: all-knowing

   Coordinate term: prescient

   The story was narrated from an omniscient point of view.

   The Abrahamic God is omniscient.

   • 1992, Douglas Adams, chapter 17, in Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 155:

     For me, anything is possible. I am omniscient and omnipotent, extremely vain, and, what is more, I come in a handy self-carrying package.

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名詞

omniscient (plural omniscients)

1. One who has total knowledge.
   • 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Destiny of Nations:

     Those blind omniscients , those almighty slaves , Untenanting creation of its God

Further reading

• “omniscient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “omniscient”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “omniscient”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.