| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | om·nis·cient |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   m-n sh  nt |
| ADJECTIVE: | Having total knowledge; knowing everything: an omniscient deity; the omniscient narrator. | | NOUN: | 1. One having total knowledge. 2. Omniscient God. Used with the. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Medieval Latin omnisci ns, omniscient- : Latin omni-, omni- + Latin scins, scient-, present participle of sc re, to know; see skei- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | om·niscience, om·niscien·cy —NOUN
om·niscient·ly —ADVERB
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