omnilaterality

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

omnilateral +‎ -ity

Noun[edit]

omnilaterality (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being omnilateral
    • 1961, The Golden Door Book of Beauty and Health[1], page 189:
      The third path to wisdom is through omnilaterality, the very reverse of one-sidedness. After all, everything is connected with everything. Omnilaterality will guide us on other important paths, for instance, that of nature.
    • 1999, Pinella Travaglia, Magic, Causality and Intentionality: The Doctrine of Rays in Al-Kindi[2], page 56:
      While rectilinearity represents the movement of a single ray, omnilaterality is due to the fact that rays come from all the points of the body which is emanating.
    • 2018, Lisa M. Austin, “The Public Nature of Private Property”, in James Penner, Michael Otsuka, Property Theory: Legal and Political Perspectives[3], →ISBN, page 2:
      My argument is that Weinrib's account of the priority of the structure of corrective justice over the omnilaterality of public institutions gets things backwards in relation to private property.