superomniscience

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

super- +‎ omniscience

Adjective[edit]

superomniscience (uncountable)

  1. (rare) True, transcendent omniscience; truly unrestricted knowledge of all things, including species.
    • 1960, Robert Patterson, Gold is the color of blood[1], Ballantine Books, page 26:
      If you're smart enough—in Bauer's rationale—you don't have to check on the results of your smartness. It was this curiously blind sense of superomniscience that had brought about all of the man's eventual fiascos.
    • 2007 August 16, Fulong, Darklyre, “Pre-Crisis Superman With the Sword of Superman versus DBZ-verse”, in www.fanverse.org[2]:
      As if Pre-Crisis Superman couldn't pull Superomniscience out of his ass anyways.
    • 2015, Adel Iskandar, Hakem Rustom, The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali: A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary[3], Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
      But if one chooses to step beyond Patañjali's characteristically tantalizing references of Īśvara's superomniscience so to speak, one can find interesting examples of how this notion of grade omniscience and omnipotence gets developed in other later Vedāntic traditions.