omniscient

omniscient

See also: Omniscient

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin omnisciens (“all-knowing”), from Latin omnis (“all”) + sciens (“knowing”).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

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Adjective

omniscient (not comparable)

1. Having total knowledge.

   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.

Synonyms

• all-knowing

Related terms

• omniscience

Translations

having total knowledge

Arabic: بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عَلِيمٌ‎ (bikulli šayʔin ʕalīmun) Armenian: ամենագետ (hy) (amenaget) Belarusian: усёве́дны (usjovjédny) Bulgarian: всезна́ещ (bg) (vseznáešt) Catalan: omniscient (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 全知的 (zh) (quánzhì de) Czech: vševědoucí Danish: alvidende Dutch: alwetend (nl) Esperanto: ĉioscia Faroese: alvitandi Finnish: kaikkitietävä (fi) French: omniscient (fr) German: allwissend (de) Greek: παντογνώστης (el) (pantognóstis) Hungarian: mindentudó (hu) Icelandic: alvitur (is) Indonesian: maha tahu Irish: uilefheasach Italian: onnisciente (it) Japanese: 全知の (ja) (ぜんちの, zenchi no) Latin: omnisciēns Macedonian: сезнаен (seznaen), семудар (semudar) Norwegian: Bokmål: allvitende (no) Nynorsk: allvitande Persian: آگاه از همه چیز‎, ویسپ آگاه‎ (visp-âgâh) Polish: wszechwiedzący (pl), wszystkowiedzący Portuguese: onisciente (pt) Romanian: omniscient (ro), atotștiutor (ro) Russian: всеве́дущий (ru) (vsevéduščij), всезна́ющий (ru) (vseznájuščij) Sanskrit: सर्वविद्य (sa) (sarvavidya) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: свѐзнајӯћ Roman: svèznajūć Slovak: vševedúci Spanish: omniscio (es), omnisciente (es), omnisapiente (es) Swedish: allvetande (sv) Tagalog: taluslahat Ukrainian: всезна́ючий (vseznájučyj), всеві́даючий (vsevídajučyj)

Noun

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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• omniscient in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• omniscient at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Adjective

omniscient (masculine and feminine plural omniscients)

1. omniscient

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French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin omnisciēns (“all-knowing”), from Latin omnis (“all”) + sciēns (“knowing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔm.ni.sjɑ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

omniscient (feminine omnisciente, masculine plural omniscients, feminine plural omniscientes)

1. omniscient

Related terms

• omniscience

See also

• omnipotent
• omniprésent

Further reading

• “omniscient”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French omniscient, from Medieval Latin omnisciens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌom.ni.st͡ʃiˈent/
• Hyphenation: om‧ni‧sci‧ent

Adjective

omniscient m or n (feminine singular omniscientă, masculine plural omniscienți, feminine and neuter plural omnisciente)

1. omniscient

Declension

Declension of omniscient

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	omniscient		omniscientă	omniscienți	omnisciente
	definite	omniscientul		omniscienta	omniscienții	omniscientele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	omniscient		omnisciente	omniscienți	omnisciente
	definite	omniscientului		omniscientei	omniscienților	omniscientelor

Synonyms

• atotștiutor

Related terms

• omnisciență

References

• omniscient in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)