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all-seeingness

noun

Etymology

From all-seeing + -ness.

  1. derived from *sekʷ-✻ — “to see, notice”
  2. inherited from *sehwaną✻ — “to see”
  3. inherited from *sehwan✻
  4. inherited from sēon
  5. inherited from seen
  6. suffixed as seeing — “see + ing”
  7. prefixed as all-seeing — “all + seeing”
  8. suffixed as all-seeingness — “all-seeing + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being all-seeing.

    • Near-synonym: omniscience
    • The notion of pan-opticon—as used by Jeremy Bentham—comes from this presumption of all-seeingness proper to the Supreme Being.
    • These two attributes, along with the other four identified — omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, and all-seeingness — portray God's character and abilities, as well as the qualities of his nature.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA