"omniscience" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɑmˈnɪʃəns/ [US], /ɒmˈnɪsiəns/ [UK] Audio: en-us-omniscience.ogg [US] Forms: omnisciences [plural]
Etymology: From Medieval Latin omniscientia (“all-knowledge”), from Latin omni- (“all”), and scient from the Latin scientia (“knowledge”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|ML.|-}} Medieval Latin, {{m|la|omniscientia||all-knowledge}} omniscientia (“all-knowledge”), {{der|en|la|omni-||all}} Latin omni- (“all”), {{m|la|scientia||knowledge}} scientia (“knowledge”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} omniscience (countable and uncountable, plural omnisciences)
  1. The capacity to know everything. Wikipedia link: omniscience Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Fictional abilities Related terms: omniscient Translations (capacity to know everything): всезнание (vseznanie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), omnisciència [feminine] (Catalan), vševědoucnost [feminine] (Czech), alwetendheid [feminine] (Dutch), kaikkitietävyys (Finnish), omniscience (French), ყოვლისმცოდნეობა (q̇ovlismcodneoba) (Georgian), Allwissenheit [feminine] (German), mindentudás (Hungarian), alviska [feminine] (Icelandic), uilefhios [masculine] (Irish), onniscienza (Italian), сезнајност (seznajnost) [feminine] (Macedonian), семудрост (semudrost) [feminine] (Macedonian), wszechwiedza [feminine] (Polish), omnisciência [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), onisciência [Brazil, feminine] (Portuguese), всеве́дение (vsevédenije) [neuter] (Russian), sveznanje (Serbo-Croatian), sveznalaštvo (Serbo-Croatian), omnisciencia [feminine] (Spanish), pagkataluslahat (Tagalog), всезнання́ (vseznannjá) [neuter] (Ukrainian), усезнання́ (useznannjá) [neuter] (Ukrainian)

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