omnidimensional en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-der. Proto-Italic *opnis Latin omnisder. English omni- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- Proto-Italic *mētis Latin mētior Latin dīmētior Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin dīmēnsiōder. English dimension Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English dimensional English omnidimensional From omni- + dimensional.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Relating to, or existing in, all dimensions simultaneously.
Egypt's artists visually portrayed all humans and animals only as one-plane, flat silhouettes. In a similar way the Greek and Egyptian geometers — as, for instance, Euclid in 300 B.C. — retrogressed into two-dimensional plane geometry from the Babylonians' omnidimensional, finite-system, experience-invoked time dimension.
1981, Richard Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 33:What is perhaps most distinctive about this war is we are in is its multidimensional, indeed omnidimensional nature.
1988, William F. Buckley Jr., Charles R. Kesler, Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought,, Harper & Row, page 360:He showed beings who were half animal, half plant, or half object, half man. He’s a ‘faithful’ painter — faithful to what we spiritually really are. When I think of an object, I become that object, otherwise I’d never understand what it is. And these beings which are strange crossings of animals, plants, and objects of different periods of time can be seen to represent the man of the future, a man who can become more and more omnipresent and omnidimensional, who realizes that he is everything else. In me is every — animal, though I’m not conscious of it.
1974, Jonathan Cott, Stockhausen: Conversations with the Composer, Pan Books, page 197:Now, although our bodies may not be able to participate in other dimensions, our minds may well be omnidimensional. I believe that consciousness has the innate capacity to tune and modulate to different domains. Implied here is the notion that there are tunnels or psychic warp spaces and times within the field of consciousness through which different universes can be connected.
1996, Jean Houston, A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Own Greater Story, Harper San Francisco, →ISBN, page 149: