“Omniscient” (om-NISH-unt) – from the Latin for “to know” – means having complete or unlimited awareness or understanding.
Example (as used by Robert Ringer today): “Instead of having to exert the normal intense mental effort to sort out my thoughts, every item that was of importance to me at the time – perhaps 40 or 50 in number – instantly became clearly fixed in my mind in such an orderly fashion that I felt almost omniscient.”
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