What does omnitude mean?
Omnitude means The fact or condition of being all..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The fact or condition of being all..
1860, William Hamilton, Lectures in Logic, edited by Henry L. Mansel and John Veitch, Boston: Gould & Lincoln, Volume 2, Lecture 8, p. 173, Universal Judgments are those in which the whole number of objects within a sphere or class are judged of,—as All men are mortal, or Every man is mortal, the all in the one case defining the whole collectively,—the every in the other defining it discretively. In such judgments the notion of a determinative wholeness or totality, in the form of omnitude or allness, is involved.
Said I not my soul Had taken up its freedom […]? And, holding in itself the omnitude Of being, God-endowed, it doth become World-representative?
For an author like John Scotus Erigena, who wrote in the ninth century, it happens that anything we may say of God the Father is a distortion, a limitation on his omnitude.
[…] as someone now yearning to become a writer, I knew exactly what I wanted to try to write: […] the sort of sentence that, even when liberated from its receiving context, impresses itself upon the eye and the ear as a totality, an omnitude, unto itself.
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Omnitude means The fact or condition of being all..
Common synonyms include allness, omneity, totality.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1860, William Hamilton, Lectures in Logic, edited by Henry L. Mansel and John Veitch, Boston: Gould & Lincoln, Volume 2, Lecture 8, p. 173, Universal Judgments are those in which the whole number of objects within a sphere or class are judged of,—as All men are mortal, or Every man is mortal, the all in the one case defining the whole collectively,—the every in the other defining it discretively. In such judgments the notion of a determinative wholeness or totality, in the form of omnitude or allness, is involved.
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