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Omniscience

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All knowledge.

Infinite awareness, understanding, and insight.

Someone who (supposedly) possesses omniscience is omniscient.

From the Latin 'omni-' (all) + 'scire' (to know) = to know all.

Medical students and nursing students would do well to recall what Francis Bacon said a while back (about 1615), 'By no means trust to your own judgement alone; for no man is omniscient.'

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