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The state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once)
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omnipresence
Word definitions for omnipresence in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Omnipresence \Om`ni*pres"ence\ ([o^]m`n[i^]*pr[e^]z"ens), n. Presence in every place at the same time; unbounded or universal presence; ubiquity. His omnipresence fills Land, sea, and air, and every kind that lives. --Milton.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The ability to be at all places at the same time; usually only attributed to God.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Omnipresence or ubiquity is the property of being present everywhere. This property is most commonly used in a religious context as an attribute of a deity or supreme being . The omnipresence of a supreme being is conceived differently by different religious ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Medieval Latin omnipraesentia , from omnipraesens , from Latin omnis "all, every" (see omni -) + praesens "present" (see present (adj.)).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) [syn: ubiquity , ubiquitousness ]
Usage examples of omnipresence.
There is nothing disquieting in omnipresence after this mode where there is no appropriation: in the same accidental way, we may reasonably put it, soul concurs with body, but it is soul self-holding, not inbound with Matter, free even of the body which it has illuminated through and through.
With one good ear and one bad ear, I listened to her faultless voice, which at fourteen was the voice of a grown woman, filled with the purity of wings and the pain of exile and the flying of eagles and the lovelessness of life and the melody of bulbuls and the glorious omnipresence of God.
A minister who so excludes a person who denies the omnipresence of the Body of Christ—.
All the masses of the great work-civil code, university, Concordat, prefectoral and centralized administration-all the details of its arrangement and distribution of places, tend to one general effect, which is the omnipotence of the State, the omnipresence of the government, the abolition of local and private initiative, the suppression of voluntary free association, the gradual dispersion of small spontaneous groupings, the preventive ban of prolonged hereditary works, the extinction of sentiments by which the individual lives beyond himself in the past or in the future.