omnicomprehensive

English

Alternative forms

• omni-comprehensive

Etymology

omni- +‎ comprehensive

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɒmniˌkɒm.pɹɪˈhɛn.sɪv/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɑmniˌkɑm.pɹəˈhɛn.sɪv/
• Hyphenation: om‧ni‧com‧pre‧hen‧sive

Adjective

omnicomprehensive (comparative more omnicomprehensive, superlative most omnicomprehensive)

1. (rare) Thoroughly comprehensive.
   • 1854, Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus, Historical Survey of Speculative Philosophy from Kant to Hegel: Designed as an Introduction to the Opinions of the Recent Schools‎^[1], W. F. Draper and Brother, page 203:

     The Absolute, when regarded truly. as Absolute, cannot, indeed, be otherwise thought of than as one and omnicomprehensive, or, in other words, two or more absolutes cannot be posited together; the rational idea of totality and unity, the highest of all ideas, imperatively demands this.

   • 1960, Gabriel Marcel, TheMystery of Being‎^[2], page 164:

     What I said at the beginning of this book about inclusion, in relation to the notion of an omnicomprehensive experience, is equally true about abstraction; these are merely mental operations that subserve certain determinate purposes, and it is at an equally determinate stage in our journey—not always and everywhere on our journey—that they have their proper place.

   • 1974, José Lezama Lima, Paradiso‎^[3], Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 323:

     They erased the immediate and the distant for him, to attain teller attachment, omnicomprehensive company. That glance, even if it were buried, seemed always to keep looking at him, as if his arrival gave her an endless joy, as if forgiving his departures.

   • 1977, Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus, Evolving Perspectives on the Right to Communicate‎^[4], East-West Center, East-West Communication Institute, →ISBN, page 29:

     This idea is closely linked to those of interaction and participation. Assistance not only should include communication facilities: it must be understood in its widest meaning and in an omnicomprehensive fashion.