omnipresence

See also: omniprésence

English

Etymology

From omni- +‎ presence.

Pronunciation

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Noun

omnipresence (countable and uncountable, plural omnipresences)

1. The ability to be, or the characteristic of being, at all places at the same time (usually only attributed to God).
   • 1899, Heinrich Friedrich Ferdinand Schmid, The Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, page 333:

     Notwithstanding these precise statements concerning the omnipresence of the flesh of Christ, there still was no uniform and, in all its features, settled doctrinal statement concerning it  […]

   • 1911, Walter Winston Kenilworth, The Life of the Soul, page 153:

     So the Lord's omnipresence as well as the omnipresence of the Self of the soul is rather an internal omnipresence, a subjective omnipresence,  […]

Synonyms

• ubiquity

Related terms

• omnipresent

Translations

the ability to be at all places at the same time

• Asturian: omnipresencia f
• Basque: nonnahitasun
• Bulgarian: вездесъщие n (vezdesǎštie)
• Catalan: omnipresència f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無往不在 / 无往不在 (wúwǎngbùzài), 無所不在 / 无所不在 (zh) (wúsuǒbùzài), 到處存在 / 到处存在 (dàochùcúnzài), 遍在 (zh) (biànzài)

• Danish: allestedsnærværelse (da) c
• Dutch: alomtegenwoordigheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: ĉieesteco
• Finnish: omnipresenssi
• French: omniprésence (fr) f, ubiquité (fr) f
• Galician: omnipresenza f
• Georgian: ყველგანმყოფობა (q̇velganmq̇opoba)
• German: Allgegenwart f, Ubiquität (de) f, Allgegenwärtigkeit f
• Greek: πανταχού παρών (pantachoú parón)
• Hungarian: mindenütt jelenvalóság (hu)
• Icelandic: alnánd f
• Ido: ubiqueso (io)
• Italian: onnipresenza (it) f
• Japanese: 遍在 (ja) (へんざい, henzai)
• Macedonian: сеприсутност f (seprisutnost)
• Occitan: omnipreséncia f
• Polish: omniprezencja f, wszechobecność (pl) f
• Portuguese: onipresença (pt) f
• Romanian: omniprezență (ro) f
• Russian: вездесу́щность (ru) f (vezdesúščnostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: uile-làthaireachd f
• Serbo-Croatian: свеприсутност f, sveprisutnost (sh) f
• Spanish: omnipresencia (es) f
• Swedish: allestädesnärvaro (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagkanasakahitsaan