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omneity rare.|ɒmˈniːɪtɪ| Also 7–9 omniety. [f. L. omni-s, omne all + -ity: perh. immed. from a scholastic L. *omneitās. A more regularly-formed L. omnitās (of which the Eng. repr. would be omnity: cf. quality etc.) is used by Patricius Nova de Universis Philosophia (ed. Venice 1593) 13, app. transl. late philosophical Gr. παντότης (Prof. Bywater).] The condition of being all; ‘allness’.
1638W. Gilberte in Ussher's Lett. (1686) 494 In the apprehension of God's Omneity, and his own Nothing. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §35 So nothing became something and Omneity [ed. 1682 Omniety] informed Nullity into an Essence. 1816Coleridge Lay Serm. 339 In the language of the old schools, Unity + Omneity = Totality. 1860A. Hayward tr. Goethe's Faust Notes 167 The Ganzen..is the Omniety of the metaphysicians. |