omnicognizance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From omni- + cognizance.
Noun
[edit]omnicognizance (uncountable)
- Awareness of everything.
- 1843, Alfred Smee, “On the Relation of the Material to the Immaterial”, in The Sources of Physical Science. Being an Introduction to the Study of Physiology through Physics. […], London: Henry Renshaw, […], page 282:
- In consequence of that omnipresence, we may infer that He is cognizant of every alteration of each respective particle of matter, which omnicognizance is called the omniscience of the Deity.
- 1938, Henry A[lexander] Murray, “Introduction”, in Harvard Psychological Clinic, Explorations in Personality: A Clinical and Experimental Study of Fifty Men of College Age, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1947 (2nd printing), page 22:
- It is just as well that man has always had at least a germ of faith in his omnipotence and omnicognizance.
- 1983, Terry Pratchett, “The Sending of Eight”, in The Colour of Magic (Discworld; 1), New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 57:
- It is embarrassing to know that one is a god of a world that only exists because every improbability curve must have its far end; especially when one can peer into other dimensions at worlds whose Creators had more mechanical aptitude than imagination. No wonder, then, that the disc gods spend more time in bickering than in omnicognizance.
- 1998, Natubhai Shah, “Supernormal Forms of Knowledge”, in “Jain Logic”, in Jainism: The World of Conquerors, volume 2, Brighton, East Sussex; Portland, Ore.: Sussex Academic Press, →ISBN, page 116:
- Devotees recite texts or prayers extolling the exceptional qualities of the deity such as omnipotence, omnicognizance and omniscience in physical imagery during worship.
- 2011, Carolina Armenteros, “The Universal Reason of Ecclesiastical Authority”, in “A Europeanist Theory of History: Du pape”, in The French Idea of History: Joseph de Maistre and His Heirs, 1794–1854, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 126:
- Given the identity Maistre posits between pope and church, papal omnipresence and omnicognizance signify the ecclesiastical suffusion of the world with reason.
- 2011, Harrison Geillor, “Pretty Much Dusk, More or Less”, in The Twilight of Lake Woebegotten, San Francisco, Calif.: Night Shade Books, →ISBN, page 1:
- This document here is mostly the diary of a young woman, not to be confused with The Diary of a Young Girl, better known to some as The Diary of Anne Frank, though to get technical it’s really called Het Achterhuis, which translates as something closer to The House Behind or maybe The Secret House or—sorry, got caught up in a digression there, it’s a symptom of my problem, that problem being omnicognizance.