Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being omnipresent; presence in all places simultaneously; unbounded or universal presence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Presence in every place at the same time; unbounded or universal presence; ubiquity.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the ability to be at all places at the same time; usually only attributed to God

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once)

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Examples

  • Let us look up the word omnipresence and read some of the passages in which it occurs. "

    The Right Knock A Story Helen Van-Anderson

  • The "ubiquity," as the _Exegesis_ terms the omnipresence of Christ's human nature, is condemned as Eutychian heresy.

    Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894

  • [68] But still more by the mechanical system of philosophy which has needlessly infected our theological opinions, and teaching us to consider the world in its relation to god, as of a building to its mason, leaves the idea of omnipresence a mere abstract notion in the stateroom of our reason.

    Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • That the sky was a bowl, a kind of omnipresence holding us, and then there was the notion that the earth was the bowl and we were in the sky, looking down at it.

    Clusterbook #1 | clusterflock 2009

  • That the sky was a bowl, a kind of omnipresence holding us, and then there was the notion that the earth was the bowl and we were in the sky, looking down at it.

    Clusterbook #1 | clusterflock 2009

  • Moreover, while his mother was only a human, personal spirit, there was a kind of omnipresence in her so far as he was concerned, and he loved her and she loved him everywhere, though he never had seen her and never could.

    Christianity and Progress Harry Emerson Fosdick

  • But even if we concede all that the scientist claims for his conception of God; if we grant that terms like "omnipresence" and "omniscience" and "progress" clothe themselves with new force in the Copernican and Newtonian and

    Understanding the Scriptures Francis John McConnell 1912

  • She certainly possesses the social talent more than any one I ever met with, and, without the least apparent effort, seems to have a kind of omnipresence in her salons, so that each one of her guests receives a due share of attention.

    Women of the Romance Countries John Robert Effinger 1901

  • That omnipresence which is possessed 'by that,' i.e. by Brahman, and which is known 'from declarations of extent,' and so on, i.e. from texts which declare Brahman to be all-pervading, is also known from texts such as 'higher than that there is nothing.'

    The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

  • No wonder therefore, since glory itself is able thus to stretch a man to a kind of omnipresence, if the desire of glory has over his life and actions a kind of omnipotence.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823

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