omnipotence

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English omnipotens, from Old French omnipotence, from Latin omnipotentia.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɒmˈnɪpətəns/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

omnipotence (countable and uncountable, plural omnipotences)

1. Unlimited power; commonly attributed to a deity or deities.
   • 1976 December 18, Allen Young, “Speaking Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 9:

     One purpose of the Freedom of Information Act is to make our society less of a police state. Until the CIA's omnipotence is seriously challenged, however, the xeroxed papers in my hand have little meaning. For now, they remind me of nothing less than the simple fact that evil forces still control our society.

Related terms

• omnipotency
• omnipotent, Omnipotent

Translations

unlimited power

• Bulgarian: всемогъщие n (vsemogǎštie)
• Catalan: omnipotència f
• Czech: všemohoucnost f
• Dutch: almacht (nl) c
• Finnish: kaikkivoipaisuus (fi)
• French: omnipotence (fr) f
• Georgian: ყოვლისშემძლეობა (q̇ovlisšemʒleoba)
• German: Allmacht (de) f, Allmächtigkeit f, Omnipotenz (de) f
• Greek: παντοδυναμία (el) f (pantodynamía)

  Ancient: παντοκρατορία f (pantokratoría)

• Hungarian: mindenhatóság (hu)
• Icelandic: almætti (is) n
• Irish: uilechumhacht f
• Italian: onnipotenza (it)
• Japanese: 全能 (ja) (zennō)
• Latin: omnipotentia f
• Macedonian: семоќ f (semoḱ), семоќност f (semoḱnost)
• Old English: ælmiht f
• Polish: wszechmoc (pl) f
• Portuguese: omnipotência f (Portugal), onipotência (pt) f (Brazil)
• Romanian: omnipotență (ro) f, atotputernicie (ro) f
• Russian: всемогущество (ru) n (vsemoguščestvo)
• Serbo-Croatian: omnipotèncija (sh) f, svȅmōć f, svȅmoćnōst f svemoguć, svemogućnost f
• Spanish: omnipotencia (es) f
• Swahili: kudura (sw) class 9
• Swedish: omnipotens (sv) c, allsmäktighet (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagkakayanggawinlahat
• Telugu: అనంతశక్తి (te) (anantaśakti)
• Ukrainian: всеси́лля n (vsesýllja), всемогу́тність f (vsemohútnistʹ)
• Urdu: پروردگار (parvardigār)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔm.ni.pɔ.tɑ̃s/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

omnipotence f (plural omnipotences)

1. omnipotence

Further reading

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