allnessn.
/ˈɔːlnəs/, U.S. /ˈɔlnəs/, /ˈɑlnəs/ The state or fact of being or comprising everything, occupying all places, etc.; universality; totality.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > generality or prevalence > universality
universality?c1400
university1553
universalness1561
universalty1567
epidemicalness1646
allnessa1649
epidemicity1716
universalism1835
catholicity1868
globality1931
a1649 T. Shepard Parable Ten Virgins (1660) i. ix. 68 The coming..of the Soul from a nothingness, emptiness in it self, to an allness and fulness in Christ.
a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) ix. ii. 390 Triumphing..in his own Nothingness, and in the Allness of the Divinity.
1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. App. p. v The science of the universal, having the ideas of oneness and allness as its two elements.
1897 Unitarian Aug. 372/1 The allness and everywhereness of God means that no atom of star-dust throughout the universe can exist without him.
1940 T. Wolfe & E. C. Aswell You can't go Home Again v. 52 He was transported instantly from the vast allness of general humanity.
2004 R. Dessaix Twilight of Love (2005) 238 Social theories, for example, the existence of God or, conversely, the allness of the material universe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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