omniscient
Doctors often exude an air of omniscience.
Police omniscience is one of the most effective tools of tyranny.
She resented Richard's air of omniscience.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Knowledge and awareness
acquaintance
alertness
as every schoolboy/schoolchild knowsidiom
astuteness
at/in the back of your mindidiom
experientially
familiarity
firsthand
general knowledge
gnostic
lived experience
metacognition
nescience
nescient
nod
off someone's radaridiom
street smarts
theory of mind
visual literacy
witting

Examples of omniscience

omniscience
If this position can be sustained, then the advantages of bivalentist omniscience over its competitors make it the natural default position for open theists.
Even omniscience is limited to events due solely to natural necessity, and includes neither free actions nor events dependent on the occurrence of free actions.
However, the areas of omniscience and omnipresence remain unresolved.
This may itself have disturbing consequences for the doctrine of divine omniscience, but here we can only note that worry and move on.
To really examine the existence of archaeological theory, we would need to cross a range of boundaries, and lacking omniscience could only do so collectively.
Only embodied passibility could account for omniscience that includes both emotions and physical feelings.
We reach a similar result when we consider omniscience in place of moral perfection.
Now omniscience and benevolence are preserved at the price of sacrificing once again our considered judgements about what is possible and necessary.
Attempts to specify the exact nature and scope of divine attributes are notorious for being the grounds of significant disagreement, and omniscience is no exception.
However, it is possible to define the core concept of omniscience in logical rather than psychological terms.
If we give up passibility, omniscience becomes problematical because it is unclear what knowledge means if it includes no experiential content.
Perhaps there is some way of answering the above doubts about omniscience and omnipotence.
So, there is a problem about reconciling divine omniscience with the power to do otherwise.
First, the acousmetre has the power of seeing all; second the power of omniscience; and third, the omnipotence to act on the situation.
So normal divine powers may or may not be taken to imply omnipotence and omniscience.
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