Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Infinite knowledge; the quality or attribute of fully knowing all things: an attribute of God.
  • noun Hence Very wide or comprehensive knowledge; a knowledge of everything.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being omniscient; the quality of knowing everything; -- an attribute peculiar to God.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The capacity to know everything.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge

Etymologies

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From Medieval Latin omniscientia ("all-knowledge"), from Latin omni- ("all"), and scient from the Latin scientia ("knowledge").

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