omniscience
/ɑmˈnɪʃəns/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.37 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: all-seeingness, omnividence"
- "Many people believe in God's omniscience."
- "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?"
- "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."
Etymology
From Medieval Latin omniscientia (“all-knowledge”), from Latin omni- (“all”), and scient from the Latin scientia (“knowledge”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɑmˈnɪʃəns/
- British English: /ɒmˈnɪsiəns/