omnisentience

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noun

Sensory awareness of all things.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounomnisentience (uncountable)
  1. uncountablelifestyleSensory awareness of all things.

    In professional training programs, our strivings for omniscience, omnipotence, and omnisentience are stimulated, reinforced, and rewarded by the programs' faculties.

    1972, Horace G. Whittington, Clinical Practice in Community Mental Health Centers, page 119
  2. uncountablehuman sciencesThe presence of sensory awareness in all things, or the doctrine that sensory awareness is universal.

    Similar difficulties arise concerning the genesis of consciousness for the individual […] To escape these perplexities, the notion of omnisentience or panpsychism has often been put forward.

    1974, Richard Spilsbury, Providence Lost: A Critique of Darwinism, page 65

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₃ep-
  2. Proto-Italic*opnis
  3. Latinomnis
  4. Englishomni-
  5. Englishsentience
  6. Englishomnisentience

From omni- + sentience.

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omnisentience. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/omnisentience

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Chicago

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