allness

[ awl-nis ]

noun

1. the quality or state of universality or totality.

Word History and Origins

Origin of allness¹

First recorded in 1645–55; all + -ness

Example Sentences

The Jews excommunicated him because he advocated a pantheistic doctrine, something like the “allness of God,” or “God in everything.”

From Literature

Is God "The Allness of things about us?"

From Project Gutenberg

These soft approaches, this smirking and bowing, this assenting, wheedling, flattering, this whisking agility, this wagging of the tail, this allness and emptiness, this legal knavery, this ineptitude and insipidity,—how can they be expressed by a single man?

From Project Gutenberg

These soft approaches, this smirking and bowing, this assenting, wheedling, flattering, this whisking agility, this wagging of the tail, this allness and emptiness, this legal knavery, this ineptitude and insipidity,—how can they be expressed by a single man?

From Project Gutenberg

What but divine Science can interpret man's eternal existence, God's allness, and the scientific inde- structibility of the universe?

From Project Gutenberg