omnitude

plural omnitudes

1. The fact or condition of being all.First known use mid-19th c.

   Said I not my soul Had taken up its freedom […]? And, holding in itself the omnitude Of being, God-endowed, it doth become World-representative?

   1848, Philip James Bailey, Festus, 3rd edition, London: William Pickering, page 329

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   1860, William Hamilton, Lectures in Logic, edited by Henry L. Mansel and John Veitch, Boston: Gould & Lincoln, Volume 2, Lecture 8, p. 173, Universal Judgments are those in which the whole number of objects within a sphere or class are judged of,—as All men are mortal, or Every man is mortal, the all in the one case defining the whole collectively,—the every in the other defining it discretively. In such judgments the notion of a determinative wholeness or totality, in the form of omnitude or allness, is involved.

   For an author like John Scotus Erigena, who wrote in the ninth century, it happens that anything we may say of God the Father is a distortion, a limitation on his omnitude.

   1988, Stuart Schneiderman, An Angel Passes: How the Sexes Became Undivided, New York University Press, Introduction, p. 11

   […] as someone now yearning to become a writer, I knew exactly what I wanted to try to write: […] the sort of sentence that, even when liberated from its receiving context, impresses itself upon the eye and the ear as a totality, an omnitude, unto itself.

   2009, Gary Lutz, “The Sentence is a Lonely Place”, in The Believer, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2019, 59, 1 January 2009

   Synonyms: allness, omneity, totality