omnipresence

See also: omniprésence

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Etymology

From omni- +‎ presence.

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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,  […]

Synonyms

• ubiquity

Related terms

• omnipresent

Translations

the ability to be at all places at the same time

Asturian: omnipresencia f Basque: nonnahitasun Bulgarian: вездесъщие n (vezdesǎštie) Catalan: omnipresència f Chinese: Mandarin: 無往不在 / 无往不在 (wúwǎngbùzài), 無所不在 / 无所不在 (zh) (wúsuǒbùzài), 到處存在 / 到处存在 (dàochùcúnzài), 遍在 (zh) (biànzài) Danish: allestedsnærværelse (da) c Dutch: alomtegenwoordigheid (nl) f Esperanto: ĉieesteco Finnish: omnipresenssi French: omniprésence (fr) f, ubiquité (fr) f Galician: omnipresenza f Georgian: ყველგანმყოფობა (q̇velganmq̇opoba) German: Allgegenwart f, Ubiquität (de) f, Allgegenwärtigkeit f Greek: πανταχού παρών (pantachoú parón) Hungarian: mindenütt jelenvalóság (hu) Icelandic: alnánd f Ido: ubiqueso (io) Italian: onnipresenza (it) f Japanese: 遍在 (ja) (へんざい, henzai) Macedonian: сеприсутност f (seprisutnost) Occitan: omnipreséncia f Polish: omniprezencja f, wszechobecność (pl) f Portuguese: onipresença (pt) f Romanian: omniprezență (ro) f Russian: вездесу́щность (ru) f (vezdesúščnostʹ) Scottish Gaelic: uile-làthaireachd f Serbo-Croatian: свеприсутност f, sveprisutnost (sh) f Spanish: omnipresencia (es) f Swedish: allestädesnärvaro (sv) c Tagalog: pagkanasakahitsaan