omniscience means the capacity to know everything. It carries an Arena rating of 1781, earned across 11 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, omniscience ranks #60 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #897 of 17,126 for Most Satisfying to Say, #2,001 of 17,131 for Scariest Words, #2,373 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books.
omniscience is pronounced /ɑmˈnɪʃəns/.
Why “omniscience” is a great word
OMNISCIENCE — [Noun] The capacity to know everything. From Medieval Latin omniscientia ("all-knowledge"), from Latin omni- ("all") and scientia ("knowledge"). First attested in English in the early 17th century (c. 1610). Unlike prescience, which implies a slender beam of foresight into the future, or erudition, which is a magnificent but humanly acquired library, omniscience is the unblinking, simultaneous awareness of every spinning particle, every whispered secret, and every consequence not yet born. It is the weight of all libraries in a single mind, the deafening cacophony of every heartbeat on the planet, the oppressive clarity of seeing every mote of dust turn in a sunbeam—the ultimate, and perhaps most lonely, form of consciousness.
Etymology
From Medieval Latin omniscientia (“all-knowledge”), from Latin omni- (“all”), and scient from the Latin scientia (“knowledge”).
noun
- The capacity to know everything.e.g.“Near-synonyms: all-seeingness, omnividence”
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