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om⋅nis⋅cience

  [om-nish-uhns]
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–noun
1. the quality or state of being omniscient.
2. infinite knowledge.
3. (initial capital letter) God.
Origin:
1605–15; < ML omniscientia, equiv. to L omni- omni- + scientia knowledge; see science
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om·nis·cient   (ŏm-nĭsh'ənt)   
adj.  Having total knowledge; knowing everything: an omniscient deity; the omniscient narrator.
n.  
  1. One having total knowledge.
  2. Omniscient God. Used with the.

[Medieval Latin omnisciēns, omniscient- : Latin omni-, omni- + Latin sciēns, scient-, present participle of scīre, to know; see skei- in Indo-European roots.]
om·nis'cience, om·nis'cien·cy n., om·nis'cient·ly adv.
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Omniscience

Om*nis"cience\, n. [Cf. F. omniscience.] The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. --Dryden.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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omniscience 
1612, from M.L. omniscientia "all-knowledge," from L. omnis "all" (see omni-) + scientia "knowledge" (see science). Adj. omniscient is attested from 1604.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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