omnipercipience

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From omni- +‎ percipience.

Noun[edit]

omnipercipience (countable and uncountable, plural omnipercipiences)

  1. Perception of everything.
    • 1669, Henry More, “[An Antidote against Idolatry: [].] What is Idolatry According to the Determination of Clear and Free Reason.”, in An Exposition of the Seven Epistles to the Seven Churches; [], London: [] James Flesher, →OCLC, paragraph 5, pages 20–21:
      [T]erreſtrial, celeſtiall, and ſuperceleſtiall, not onely all theſe Omnipercipiencies but any one of them is a certain Excellency in God, and, for ought we know, incommunicated to any Creature. [] [T]his Omnipreſence or Omnipercipience terreſtriall is one main ground of that religious Worſhip due to God which we call Invocation.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for omnipercipience”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)