Is there an adjective that begins with the prefix omni that means all-hearing? I thought that an aural counterpart to omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient must exist, but after a few minutes of Googling, I've failed to find any synonyms for all-hearing.
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The logical construction would be along the lines of omnaudient (given the Latin verb "to listen" is "audio") but I've never seen it used.
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"Omniaudient" is indeed the word for which I was looking. Thanks! Commented Oct 17, 2010 at 23:54
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3"Audio" means "I listen/hear". "Audire" means "to listen/hear".– malachCommented Oct 20, 2010 at 10:05
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1Correct. That's Latin, though, and this board's english-focused; I didn't think that it'd help matters too much to go into the full conjugation of audio -ire -ibi -itus– muninCommented Oct 22, 2010 at 4:05
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1Ok, but is it spelled "omnaudient" as in the answer, or "omniaudient" as in the OP's comment? Commented Jan 4, 2012 at 19:02
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Both would be fine under the usual ways of constructing Latinate words, but I'd prefer the un-elided form "omniaudient" as it's more likely to be understood. Commented May 27, 2012 at 22:44
Omniaural? (Maybe this just means, "can be heard everywhere".)
answered Oct 14, 2010 at 20:47
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"Omniaudient" used in "Midnight's Children" Salman Rushdie 1981.
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1This answer would be better with a reference to an accepted reference like a dictionary Commented Jan 9, 2018 at 1:01
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Instances of omniaudient go back at least as far as "A Christian Creed: or, Summary of Truth Faith" (1736): "The Creator, Preserver, and Sustainer of all Creation: Ever omnipresent, omnipercipient, omniscient, omniaudient, and the prescient, ordinant, and preordinant Director, and the universal sole sovereign Lord and supream Governor of all, ..." Commented Jan 9, 2018 at 1:53