HOW TO PRONOUNCE
omniscient
/ɑmˈnɪʃənt/
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Stress “nis” and listen for “sh.”
The written sc produces a sh sound here, leading into a light final vowel and the ending nt.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The novel uses an omniscient narrator.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does omniscient mean?
adjective
- Having total knowledge.
noun
- One who has total knowledge.
proper noun
- God.
More meanings (1)
proper noun
- Sambuddha.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɑmˈnɪʃənt/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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The Triune Persons--omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent--exist for all time, superior to and independent of matter.
Don't you think it would be interesting if you really could read the story of your life--written perfectly truthfully by an omniscient author?
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It consists in substituting for the idea of an omnipotent and omniscient author that of a necessary and eternal, but unconscious and blind, coordination.
If I had been divinely inspired, if I had been secured by an omniscient spirit against the danger of error, my case would have been different.
For there be an eternal, omniscient, omnipotent Being, it is certain that there is a God, whether you imagine that Being to be material or no.