Omnisentience

Origin

From - + sentience.

Full definition of omnisentience

Noun

1. (religion) Sensory awareness of all things.
• 1972, Horace G. Whittington, Clinical Practice in Community Mental Health CentersIn professional training programs, our strivings for omniscience, omnipotence, and omnisentience are stimulated, reinforced, and rewarded by the programs' faculties.
2. (religion, philosophy) The presence of sensory awareness in all things, or the doctrine that sensory awareness is universal.
• 1974, Richard Spilsbury, Providence Lost: A Critique of DarwinismSimilar difficulties arise concerning the genesis of consciousness for the individual ... To escape these perplexities, the notion of omnisentience or panpsychism has often been put forward.

Related terms

• omniscience
• omnisentient
• sentiency
• sentient
• sentience