om|nis|cience

om|nis|cience
om|nis|cience «om NIHSH uhns», noun.
knowledge of everything; complete or infinite knowledge: »

For many patients the notion that the doctor lacks omniscience or omnipotence in his domain is extremely disturbing (Scientific American).

[< Medieval Latin omniscientia < Latin omnis all + scientia knowledge < sciēns, -entis, present participle of scīre to know]
Om|nis|cience «om NIHSH uhns», noun.
= God: (Cf.God) »

the eye of Omniscience.


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