omnipresence

See also: omniprésence

English

Etymology

From omni- +‎ presence.

Pronunciation

  • (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ɑmniˈprɛz(ə)ns/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛzəns

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 []

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