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omnilaterality en · NOUN

Etymology

From omnilateral + -ity.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The condition of being omnilateral
    • While rectilinearity represents the movement of a single ray, omnilaterality is due to the fact that rays come from all the points of the body which is emanating. 1999, Pinella Travaglia, Magic, Causality and Intentionality: The Doctrine of Rays in Al-Kindi, page 56:
    • The third path to wisdom is through omnilaterality, the very reverse of one-sidedness. After all, everything is connected with everything. Omnilaterality will guide us on other important paths, for instance, that of nature. 1961, The Golden Door Book of Beauty and Health, page 189:
    • My argument is that Weinrib's account of the priority of the structure of corrective justice over the omnilaterality of public institutions gets things backwards in relation to private property. 2018, Lisa M. Austin, “The Public Nature of Private Property”, in James Penner, Michael Otsuka, Property Theory: Legal and Political Perspectives, →ISBN, page 2: