Definition of All-knowing

1. Adjective. Infinitely wise.

Exact synonyms: Omniscient
Similar to: Wise
Derivative terms: Omniscience

Definition of All-knowing

1. Adjective. Knowing everything; omniscient. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of All-knowing

all-embracing
all-fire
all-fired
all-firedly
all-hail
all-hailed
all-important
all-important(a)
all-in
all-in-one
all-in-ones
all-in wrestling
all-inclusive
all-ins
all-knowing (current term)
all-mains(a)
all-night
all-night-man
all-nighter
all-nighters
all-or-none law
all-or-nothing
all-or-nothing phenomenon
all-out
all-outer
all-over
all-over oneself
all-overish
all-overishness

Literary usage of All-knowing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Autology: An Inductive System of Mental Science; Whose Centre is the Will by David Henry Hamilton (1873)
"We have seen (Section I.) that all knowing is remembering, ... We now come to the fact that all knowing is divided into Absolute Knowing and Relative ..."

2. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1877)
"It is the idea of knowing in and for itself unconditioned, which is absolutely only one and in which all knowing is only one—it is the idea of that primal ..."

3. The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated by William Warburton (1837)
"Sar, virgins, seated round the throne divine, all-knowing goddesses ! immortal nine ! Since earth's wide regions, heaven's unmeasured height, ..."

4. Life and Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, from 1751 to by Gilbert Elliot Minto (1874)
"They have taken a first step without at all knowing what the second was to be, the second without the third, and so on. They have lost all character, ..."

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