allness

plural allnesses

1. uncountableusuallyTotality; completeness.

   1912, Rabindranath Tagore (translator), Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore, London: The India Society, poem 87, p. 51, 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.

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

   1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Statesman’s Manual, London: Gale & Fenner, Appendix, pp. 5-6

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

   1854, Robert Turnbull, chapter 12, in Christ in History, Boston: Phillips, Sampson, page 300

   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.

   1940, Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again, Book 1, Chapter 5

   Synonyms: omnitude