omni-potentiality

See also: omnipotentiality

English

Noun

omni-potentiality (usually uncountable, plural omni-potentialities)

1. Alternative form of omnipotentiality.
   • 1894 May, James A. Carmichael, “Life in the Cell. Comparative Morphanthrolopogy.”, in Egbert Guernsey, Alfred K. Hills, editors, The New York Medical Times, a Monthly Journal of Medicine, Surgery and the Collateral Sciences, volume XXII, number 5, New York, N.Y.: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 135, column 1:

     We have already, and variously, accepted and maintained, as far as in us lay the power, as our "shibboleth" and "coign of vantage," the omni-potentiality of cell force in making life appear where life was not, and in forming and developing each and every vital entity, from the lowest to the highest, and adapting them to the conditions by which they are surrounded, […]

   • 1970 December 2 (date delivered), Kenneth Eric Nelson, witness, “Statement of Maj. Kenneth Eric Nelson, M.D., Chief, Psychiatric Consultation Service, Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco, Calif., Department of the Navy”, in Drug and Alcohol Abuse in the Military: Hearings before the Special Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Narcotics of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session on Examination of Drug Abuse and Alcoholism in the Armed Forces […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published 1971, →OCLC, page 696:

     In this maturational process, one has to give up the many comforts of dependency, and many fantasies about one's omni-potentiality; for to commit one's self to something necessarily means to surrender something else.

   • 2015, Kristof K. P. Vanhoutte, “(All) Politics (are) from the Devil: Taking [Giorgio] Agamben to Hell (and Back?)”, in Benjamin W. McCraw, Robert Arp, editors, The Concept of Hell, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN:

     Power, through its perversion of means and ends, not only considers omnipotence the greatest perfection, but, in its perverted form of greatest perfection, aims at the culmination of all potentialities – omni-potentialities […]. This means that, at the heights of its omnipotence, power claims that all is potentially possible, but only as long as one does not attempt to put it (all potentialities) into action.