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Synonyms for ubiquity

Grammar : Noun
Spell : yoo-bik-wi-tee
Phonetic Transcription : yuˈbɪk wɪ ti

Définition of ubiquity

Origin :
  • 1570s, from Middle French ubiquité (17c.), from Latin ubique "everywhere," from ubi "where" (see ubi) + que "any, also, ever," a suffix that can give universal meaning to the word it is attached to. Originally a Lutheran theological position maintaining the omnipresence of Christ.
  • noun omnipresence
Example sentences :
  • His sensual curiosity, his elasticity, his ubiquity of mind reappeared.
  • Extract from : « The Child of Pleasure » by Gabriele D'Annunzio
  • He has raised us to partake, as it were, in the ubiquity of his own beneficence.
  • Extract from : « A History of American Christianity » by Leonard Woolsey Bacon
  • Robert made a laughing remark on the tyranny and ubiquity of babies.
  • Extract from : « Robert Elsmere » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • All the changes going on among nations forecast its ubiquity.
  • Extract from : « The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 » by Joseph Wild
  • This is considered a slight on the power and ubiquity of the German Navy.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 26th, 1914 » by Various
  • He was accorded the gift of ubiquity, the attribute of many popular heroes.
  • Extract from : « Putois » by Anatole France
  • Thanks largely to her ubiquity, the set ended in the triumph of the Fifth.
  • Extract from : « The Youngest Girl in the Fifth » by Angela Brazil
  • But though the heart be its special residence, it may be said to possess in a degree the ubiquity of its Divine Author.
  • Extract from : « A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. » by William Wilberforce
  • Because of its ubiquity: go where we will, there, like the house-fly or the sparrow, we find it.
  • Extract from : « Curiosities of Civilization » by Andrew Wynter
  • Such was the ubiquity of the emperor that this was absolutely hopeless.
  • Extract from : « The Caesars » by Thomas de Quincey

Antonyms for ubiquity

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