Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Totality; entirety; completeness; universality.

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

  • noun rare Totality; completeness.

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  • noun totality; completeness

Etymologies

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all +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Where, of course, Divine immanence is held to mean the "allness" -- which is the strict equivalent of the infinity -- of God, evil in every shape and form will either have to be ascribed to the direct will and agency of God Himself, or for apologetic purposes to be reduced to a mere semblance, or "not-being."

    Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Joseph Warschauer

  • But secondly, without committing ourselves to Professor Hudson's dictum that personality implies limitation, we have to point out that we are not concerned to defend any inference that might be drawn from the infinity, in the sense {81} of the "allness" of God.

    Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Joseph Warschauer

  • It depends, we answer, what we mean by "this doctrine"; if we construe immanence to signify "allness," we may as well admit first as last that there is no way of escape from the difficulties which these queries suggest.

    Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Joseph Warschauer

  • Nevertheless this particular remedy seems to be enjoying a considerable popularity at the present time; indeed, in discussing some aspects of the doctrine which affirms the "allness" of God, and the allied one of

    Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Joseph Warschauer

  • Her grand central doctrine of the "allness" of mind and the unreality of matter is a true copy of the "fantastic idealism" of the Gnostics.

    The Revelation Explained 1913

  • The Strange World of Quantum Entanglement: John Hunter notes: I don't trust "allness" statements as above; too limited.

    California Literary Review 2009

  • The Strange World of Quantum Entanglement: John Hunter notes: I don't trust "allness" statements as above; too limited.

    California Literary Review 2009

  • The Strange World of Quantum Entanglement: John Hunter notes: I don't trust "allness" statements as above; too limited.

    California Literary Review 2009

  • I don't trust "allness" statements as above; too limited.

    California Literary Review 2009

  • The Strange World of Quantum Entanglement: John Hunter notes: I don't trust "allness" statements as above; too limited.

    California Literary Review 2009

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