omnisentience
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]omnisentience (uncountable)
- (religion) Sensory awareness of all things.
- 1972, Horace G. Whittington, Clinical Practice in Community Mental Health Centers[1], page 119:
- In professional training programs, our strivings for omniscience, omnipotence, and omnisentience are stimulated, reinforced, and rewarded by the programs' faculties.
- (religion, philosophy) The presence of sensory awareness in all things, or the doctrine that sensory awareness is universal.
- 1974, Richard Spilsbury, Providence Lost: A Critique of Darwinism[2], page 65:
- Similar difficulties arise concerning the genesis of consciousness for the individual […] To escape these perplexities, the notion of omnisentience or panpsychism has often been put forward.