Meaning

Being everywhere at once: omnipresent..

Definitions by Sense

1. Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.
2. Appearing to be everywhere at once; being or seeming to be in more than one location at the same time.
3. Widespread; very prevalent.

Example Sentences

In Christianity, Hinduism, and Judaism, God is ubiquitous.

One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time.

There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.

This deed accomplished, life no longer suffers hopelessly under the terrible mutilations of ubiquitous disaster, battered by time, hideous throughout space; but with its horror visible still, its cries of anguish still tumultuous, it becomes penetrated by an all-suffusing, all-sustaining love, and a knowledge of its own unconquered power.

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