multisciencen.
/mʌlˈtɪsɪəns/, U.S. /ˌməlˈtɪʃ(ə)ns/ rare.
Knowledge of many things.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > large amount of knowledge > [noun] > possession of
universality1605
polymathy1642
all-knowingness1674
pansophia1674
pansophy1792
polyhistory1799
multiscience1816
encyclopaedism1833
universalism1838
omnisciencea1845
know-everythingism1855
pansophism1868
1816 S. T. Coleridge tr. Heraclitus in Statesman's Man. 32 Multiscience (or a variety and quantity of acquired knowledge) does not teach intelligence.
1960 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 21 286 Collectaneous Learning and vain multiscience.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
multiscienceadj.
/ˌmʌltɪˈsʌɪəns/, U.S. /ˌməltiˈsaɪəns/, /ˌməltəˈsaɪəns/, /ˌməlˌtaɪˈsaɪəns/ Involving or relating to several scientific disciplines or areas of study.
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1954 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 68 165 Population theory has always been a ‘multiscience’ field.
1959 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 65 169 Demography, although a multiscience discipline, can contribute to the central interests of sociology.
1979 A. J. Bahm Philosopher's World Model viii. 252 New ideas emerging from all of the sciences and interdisciplinary research to form a world hypothesis (resulting from such multiscience and interscience cooperation) may themselves constitute a new science.
1996 Columbian (Vancouver) (Nexis) 1 May a8 Forest Service managers, community leaders and scientists from the University of Washington met in Stevenson a week back to talk about the possibility of a large public multiscience complex at Wind River.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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