Omniscience

Definitions

The capacity to know everything.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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?”

CEFR level