omniscient

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

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

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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.

• all-knowing

• omnipotent, omnibenevolent, omnipresent, omniscience

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

• “omniscient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “omniscient”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “omniscient”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

omniscient m or f (masculine and feminine plural omniscients)

1. omniscient

Borrowed from Medieval Latin omniscientem (“all-knowing”), from Latin omnis (“all”) + sciēns (“knowing”).

• IPA^(key): /ɔm.ni.sjɑ̃/

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

1. omniscient

• omniscience

• omnipotent
• omniprésent

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

Borrowed from French omniscient, from Medieval Latin omnisciens.

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

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

1. omniscient

   Synonym: atotștiutor

• omnisciență

• “omniscient”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025