ubiquity
pronunciation
How to pronounce ubiquity in British English:
UK [ju:'bɪkwətɪ]
How to pronounce ubiquity in American English:
US [juˈbɪkwɪti]
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- Noun:
- the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once)
Word Origin
- ubiquity (n.)
- "omnipresence," 1570s, from Modern Latin ubiquitas, from Latin ubique "everywhere," from ubi "where" (see ubi) + que "any, also, and, ever," as a suffix giving universal meaning to the word it is attached to, from PIE root *kwe "and." Originally a Lutheran theological position maintaining the omnipresence of Christ.
Example
- 1. Resistance to the ubiquity of guns remains , of course , mainly in the urban north .
- 2. The ubiquity of computers in business , however , has been eclipsed by their takeover of our personal lives .
- 3. Their ubiquity suggests that there are tens of billions of possible places to look for life beyond earth , with at least 100 such planets located nearby .
- 4. Such an environment , with its more relentless ubiquity of information , may also pose new challenges .
- 5. Today most people seem to have adapted quite well to the eight-hour sleep but ekirch believes many sleeping problems may have roots in the human body 's natural preference for segmented sleep as well as the ubiquity of artificial light .