omnipresent
Americanadjective
adjective
Related Words
Omnipresent, ubiquitous refer to the quality of being everywhere. Omnipresent emphasizes in a lofty or dignified way the power, usually divine, of being present everywhere at the same time, as though all-enveloping: Divine law is omnipresent. Ubiquitous is applied to that which seems to appear in many and all sorts of places, or in an undignified or humorous way is “all over the place,” often when unwanted: A bore seems to be ubiquitous.
Other Word Forms
- omnipresence noun
Etymology
Origin of omnipresent
First recorded in 1600–10; from Medieval Latin omnipraesent- (stem of omnipraesēns ), equivalent to Latin omni- omni- + praesent- present 1
Example Sentences
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The Mexican painter is omnipresent this year as the subject of three museum shows and an opera.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
"All that uncertainty is still omnipresent for us - we're just not in the moment of volatility right now."
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
Marilyn’s face is omnipresent more than 60 years after her death.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026
In the 1980s, animated Disney princesses were not the omnipresent texts of girlhood they became the following decade, but Cinderella stories were nevertheless everywhere you looked.
From Salon • Jan. 17, 2026
It was from this town and its gloomy, omnipresent shade that my mother escaped with me when I was only a few months old.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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