Both Uses of
omniscient
in
The Magic Mountain
- His field of study had always been concerned with those dark, vast regions of the human soul that are called the subconscious, although one would perhaps do better to speak of the superconscious, since there are occasions when the knowledge that rises up from those regions far exceeds an individual's conscious knowledge, suggesting that there may be connections and associations between the bottommost unlighted tracts of the individual soul and an omniscient universal soul.†
Chpt 7.8
- They breathlessly reported this case of crass abnormality: an omniscient girl had appeared on the scene, a maiden who heard voices.†
Chpt 7.8 *
Definition:
all-knowing (to know everything)