allness

allness

English

Etymology

all +‎ -ness

Noun

allness (usually uncountable, plural allnesses)

1. Totality; completeness.
   • 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Statesman’s Manual, London: Gale & Fenner, Appendix, pp. 5-6,

     The REASON […] is the science of the universal, having the ideas of ONENESS and ALLNESS as its two elements or primary factors.

   • 1854, Robert Turnbull, Christ in History, Boston: Phillips, Sampson, Chapter 12, p. 300,

     The “allness” of God, including his absolute spirituality, supremacy, and eternity.

   • 1912, Rabindranath Tagore (translator), Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore, London: The India Society, poem 87, p. 51,

     Oh, dip my emptied life into that ocean, plunge it into the deepest fulness. Let me for once feel that lost sweet touch in the allness of the universe.

   • 1940, Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again, Book 1, Chapter 5,

     The moment he entered the pullman he was transported instantly from the vast allness of general humanity in the station into the familiar geography of his home town.

Synonyms

• omnitude

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for allness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)