omnipotence

omnipotent | American Dictionary

omnipotent
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ɑmˈnɪp·ə·t̬ənt/
having the power to do anything:
The people overthrew the once omnipotent dictator.

omnipotence

noun[ U ]us/ɑmˈnɪp·ə·t̬əns/
America had illusions of omnipotence in the 1950s.

Examples of omnipotent

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Suppose further that, in response to some past wrongdoing, an omnipotent being changes one of the numbers on the winning ticket.
There, local advocacy groups have controlled far more than one might imagine, given the popular impression of omnipotent real estate developers.
It does not follow that one could be free of this liability only if one were omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly reasonable.
Because it is logically impossible for there to be two omnipotent beings.
It's true, no doubt, that an omnipotent being would have the power to rid itself of all such inclinations.
Beings that can do only some logically possible things are not omnipotent, whatever the nature of the things they can do.
The present definition of ' omnipotent ' is ' the ability to perform any task ', and that will continue to suffice for a while yet.
In an age of the ever-powerful, omnipotent and omnipresent nation state, culture cannot be divorced from the wider political environment.
Or is this an ironic reference to the omnipotent urge to take possession of space?
After all, he is omniscient and omnipotent, and so if there is some possible way he could bring it about.
In addition, the argument must establish that the architecture of the universe reflects the work of an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent designer.
There is nothing analytically incoherent in claiming that there is no omnipotent, omniscient, perfectly free, etc., being.
Consider the following argument that purports to show that there is no ' evil demon ', no individual who is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnimalevolent.
If random processes are ubiquitous, as some interpretations of contemporary physics suggest, there will be little an omnipotent being can do.
He argues that free choice is compatible with determinism, and that an omnipotent being could determine that free creatures never choose wrongly.
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