allness

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English

Etymology

all +‎ -ness

Noun

allness (usually uncountable, plural allnesses)

Totality; completeness.
- 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Statesman’s Manual‎, London: Gale & Fenner, Appendix, pp. 5-6:
  The REASON […] is the science of the universal, having the ideas of ONENESS and ALLNESS as its two elements or primary factors.
- 1854, Robert Turnbull, chapter 12, in Christ in History‎, Boston: Phillips, Sampson, page 300:
  The “allness” of God, including his absolute spirituality, supremacy, and eternity.
- 1912, Rabindranath Tagore (translator), Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore, London: The India Society, poem 87, p. 51,
  Oh, dip my emptied life into that ocean, plunge it into the deepest fulness. Let me for once feel that lost sweet touch in the allness of the universe.
- 1940, Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again‎, Book 1, Chapter 5:
  The moment he entered the pullman he was transported instantly from the vast allness of general humanity in the station into the familiar geography of his home town.

Synonyms

omnitude

References

“allness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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