omnicomprehensiveness

English

Alternative forms

  • omni-comprehensiveness

Etymology

From omni- +‎ comprehensiveness.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɒmniˌkɒm.pɹɪˈhɛn.sɪvnəs/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɑmniˌkɑm.pɹəˈhɛn.sɪvnɪs/
  • Hyphenation: om‧ni‧com‧pre‧hen‧sive‧ness

Noun

omnicomprehensiveness (uncountable)

  1. (very rare) The state of being omnicomprehensive; thoroughgoing comprehension.
    • 1965, International Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 5[1], Fordham University Press, page 93:
      Such extraordinary characteristics could not but catch the attention of Cusanus. He glimpsed the possibility of using it to his purpose. Truly in it there is a certain exclusiveness, or transcendence, along with an omnicomprehensiveness, which seemed to provide the best conditions for constructing another “name” of God: He is Non Aliud with respect to the being of every thing.
    • 1984, Luigi Bogliolo, Philosophical Anthropology: A Complete Course in Scholastic Philosophy, Volume 2[2], Firma KLM, page 199:
      By virtue of the prioity of form and the omnicomprehensiveness of the human intellective form, we must conclude that the world is in the spirit and in man and not vice versa.
    • 1997, Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature, Volumes 34-35[3], Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, page 85:
      We see in Viśvaparcay that Tagore depicts the reality of the terrestrial world as objectively as possible without any kind of fictional fancy. Yet he firmly states that omnicomprehensiveness of the Absolute Reality (Bhūmā) may be possible only in human consciousness, not in outward space-time entity of mass.
    • 2005, Daphne Patai, Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent[4], Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 32:
      Gumbo nicely captures the omnicomprehensiveness of Theory in our textualizing era.
    • 2021, Connecting Drawing for Weaving Relationships: Languages, Distances, Technologies[5], FrancoAngeli, page 392:
      The conclusion of this short contribution can only be linked to the introduction's conditions and, therefore, to the considerations on the vastness of the expressive meaning of the drawing that enclose, contains and defines any expression of the mental elaborative process, both it belongs to the strictly emotional sphere than to the rational one. This ability to decipher every complexity through simple and effective syntactic rules establishes a precise dichotomy between the omnicomprehensiveness of the semantic dimension and the simplicity of the expressive language that is unmatched in any other linguistic form:‘Nel disegno si cessa di girare intorno all'immagine: ci si ferma in un punto. E si contempla" [Pierantoni 1999, p. 1 28].