What does "omniscience" mean?

The capacity to know everything.

Omniscience

Q: What is a synonym for "omniscience"?

Common synonyms include: all-knowingness, all-seeingness, cross-disciplinary knowledge, deep knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, eternity.

//ɑmˈnɪʃəns// noun

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Definitions

Noun

1
The capacity to know everything. countable, uncountable
"Near-synonyms: all-seeingness, omnividence"
2
the state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge wordnet

Synonyms

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all-knowingness all-seeingness cross-disciplinary knowledge deep knowledge encyclopedic knowledge eternity

Antonyms

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ascience

Example

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"The Bible also states that he has all the exclusive attributes of a divine being, omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, eternity, sovereignty, and immortality."

Etymology

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

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