OMNISCIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does omniscience mean? 

• OMNISCIENCE (noun)
  The noun OMNISCIENCE has 1 sense:

1. the state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge

  Familiarity information: OMNISCIENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OMNISCIENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("omniscience" is a kind of...):

state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "omniscience"):

God's Wisdom (the omniscience of a divine being)

Derivation:

omniscient (infinitely wise)

 Context examples 

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)