Meaning of omnipotentiality | Babel Free

Definitions

The characteristic or feeling that anything is possible, and there are no limits on what may be achieved; (countable, rare) an instance of this.

uncountable, usually

Examples

“In the faculty of absolute concretive conception, the Divine Self-existent Mind was intrinsically possessed of the omnipotentiality to involve and evolve, an omnimultiple, omnivaried and omnimutable creation; and truly, with no eternal, objective, absolute cosmos to cognize, inevitable necessity required that Deity should first concretively conceive the varied subjects, He would fain contemplate.”

“We have already, and variously, accepted and maintained, as far as in us lay the power, as our "shibboleth" and "coign of vantage," the omni-potentiality of cell force in making life appear where life was not, and in forming and developing each and every vital entity, from the lowest to the highest, and adapting them to the conditions by which they are surrounded, […]”

“In this maturational process, one has to give up the many comforts of dependency, and many fantasies about one's omni-potentiality; for to commit one's self to something necessarily means to surrender something else.”

“As such, the infant supports the illusion of omnipotentiality and thus becomes a fit vehicle for whatever splitoff and grandiose fantasies the father might still entertain for himself.”

“The young man's comment "I've always had difficulty making choices" reflects a problem with "omnipotentiality"—a fantasy-based attitude, common among adolescents, that all things are possible, all choices are open. Usually this attitude is dispelled during mid- to late adolescence as most individuals are forced to confront the reality that some doors are not open to them.”

“Power, through its perversion of means and ends, not only considers omnipotence the greatest perfection, but, in its perverted form of greatest perfection, aims at the culmination of all potentialities – omni-potentialities[…]. This means that, at the heights of its omnipotence, power claims that all is potentially possible, but only as long as one does not attempt to put it (all potentialities) into action.”

“For some, the manic "omnipotentialities" of adolescence and the idealistic optimism of youth harshly juxtapose with an ego-depleting nostalgic focus on decline, irreversible losses, missed opportunities, and a negative and unfavorable review of the past which generates deep regret and a perverse failure of optimism[…]”

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