Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Existence or apparent existence everywhere at the same time; omnipresence: "the repetitiveness, the selfsameness, and the ubiquity of modern mass culture” ( Theodor Adorno ).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Omnipresence, or a capacity of being in an indefinite number of places at the same time, not strictly amounting to omnipresence: as, the ubiquity of Christ's body; the ubiquity of the king (see below).
- n. The doctrines or beliefs of the Ubiquitarians.
- n. Locality; neighborhood; whereabouts.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The state or quality of being, or appearing to be, everywhere at once; actual or perceived omnipresence.
- n. countable, sciences Anything that is found to be ubiquitous within a specified area
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Existence everywhere, or in all places, at the same time; omnipresence.
- n. (Theol.) The doctrine, as formulated by Luther, that Christ's glorified body is omnipresent.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once)
Etymologies
- From Middle French ubiquité, from Latin ubique. (Wiktionary)
- New Latin ubīquitās, from Latin ubīque, everywhere : ubī, where; + -que, and, generalizing particle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Both are characterized by their ubiquity and their antiquity: No known human culture lacks them, and musical instruments are among the oldest human artifacts, dating to the Late Pleistocene about 50,000 years ago.”
“This has been tried before and failed, but maybe the technology and connectivity ubiquity is finally good enough to make it reality.”
“NEW YORK In an era when ad ubiquity is being met with more consumer avoidance, marketers are trying to make ads that work — literally.”
“They offer their customers a certain ubiquity, along with a consistency of product.”
“Glass, for all its usefullness and ubiquity, is widely overlooked for its potential to enhance our lives in many ways and the building block bottle is just one of them … heineken should have considered using additional colors and expanded the kinds of building components that its packaging suggests.”
“BTW, Wi-Fi user configuration could also be simplified, as the syndication network provides a de-facto standard roaming config (SSIDs, etc), so the simplicity and ubiquity is maintained.”
“Besides, as he was with the army of Virginia, and the South fought battles elsewhere, he, not having the gift of ubiquity, is forced to rely for events of which he was not an eye-witness upon letters from friends and announcements in newspapers.”
“Dresdensis) _ of 1571 the Philippists of Electoral Saxony also rejected the omnipresence (which they termed ubiquity) of the human nature of”
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
“Bank of China deftly leverages its "ubiquity" - i.e., "almost a branch on every corner" to reinforce "life-long partnership, through good times and bad.”
Tom Doctoroff: How Marketers Can Win During China's "Recession"
“Sacramentarians; it pronounced, as Calvin never would have done, that the unworthy communicant receives Our Lord's Body; and it met his objection by the strange device of "ubiquity" -- namely, that the glorified Christ was everywhere.”
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for ubiquity.
thesaurosie The quality of trying to be ubiquitous is not a quality one at all! Jul 4, 2009
reesetee Never mind. You got me back with mexicocity. Oct 18, 2007
uselessness Here, let me take it off from around my neck, and you can yank it all you want. Go crazy. Oct 18, 2007
reesetee I agree with you, c_b. I just wanted to yank the uselessness' chain. ;-> Oct 18, 2007
jennarenn Skip, you've got to stop hanging around the uselessness. Oct 18, 2007
skipvia No no...we love you, c_b. We just know how easy it is to yank your chain. Oct 18, 2007
chained_bear *feeling like everyone's picking on me*
What about iniquitousness? Nobody says *that*. They say iniquity, as is just and pleasing in the eyes of the Lord. Oct 18, 2007
sionnach Why do people say hideousness when clearly hideosity is infinitely preferable? Oct 18, 2007
reesetee Ha! Oct 17, 2007
uselessness Let's not forget about mexicocity... Oct 17, 2007
reesetee So uselessness could, in theory, be called uselessity. *stroking chin, thinking* Oct 17, 2007
chained_bear Sometimes it's just forgetfulness. In high school I got a paper back from a teacher with a big red circle around this word: angriness. It said "Anger?" in the margin. Now, that was just being dense (density?). But LOTs of people say "ubiquitousness," and say it frequently, as if ubiquity just didn't exist.
And we all know ubiquity exists. Oh yes it does. It's everywhere. Ahuh! Huhhuh! < -- weak, upper-class-twit laugh. Oct 17, 2007
uselessness I have the same problem with humbleness. Can't people just say humility? It's a much nicer word. Oct 17, 2007
reesetee No one ever said English was an organized language. ;-) It's the same reason I believe utilize should be stricken from the language. Forever. Oct 17, 2007
chained_bear Why do people say ubiquitousness instead of ubiquity?
Or is there a reason for the existence of "ubiquitousness"? Is that word denoting the quality of being ubiquitous, and this word (ubiquity), the actual being? Oct 17, 2007