allness

English

Etymology

all +‎ -ness

Noun

allness (usually uncountable, plural allnesses)

1. Totality; completeness.
   • 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Statesman’s Manual‎^[1], London: Gale & Fenner, Appendix, pp. 5-6:

     The REASON […] is the science of the universal, having the ideas of ONENESS and ALLNESS as its two elements or primary factors.

   • 1854, Robert Turnbull, chapter 12, in Christ in History‎^[2], Boston: Phillips, Sampson, page 300:

     The “allness” of God, including his absolute spirituality, supremacy, and eternity.

   • 1912, Rabindranath Tagore (translator), Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore, London: The India Society, poem 87, p. 51,^[3]

     Oh, dip my emptied life into that ocean, plunge it into the deepest fulness. Let me for once feel that lost sweet touch in the allness of the universe.

   • 1940, Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again‎^[4], Book 1, Chapter 5:

     The moment he entered the pullman he was transported instantly from the vast allness of general humanity in the station into the familiar geography of his home town.

Synonyms

• omnitude

References

• “allness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.