omniscient

omniscient (ɒmˈnɪsɪənt)

—*adj*
1.	having infinite knowledge or understanding
2.	having very great or seemingly unlimited knowledge

[C17: from Medieval Latin omnisciens, from Latin omni- + scīre to know]

om'niscience

—n

om'nisciently

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

omniscient

c.1600, from Mod.L. omniscientem (nom. omnisciens); see omniscience.

Example sentences

Your gun does not make you a superhero, a cop, or omniscient.

Although project designers should be diligent and exercise due care in

developing the plans, they are not omniscient.

First, governments are not omniscient and they can get their programmes wrong.

Navy destroyers will steam offshore readying virtual cruise missiles and the

omniscient eye of trainers will watch it all.

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Matching Quote

"We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existence of evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being."

-George Bernard Shaw