ubiquity

[ yoo-bik-wi-tee ]

/ yuˈbɪk wɪ ti /

the state or capacity of being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresence: the ubiquity of magical beliefs.

(initial capital letter) Theology. the omnipresence of God or Christ.

Origin of ubiquity

1570–80; < New Latin ubiquitās, equivalent to Latin ubīqu(e) everywhere + -itās -ity

A great benefit of the ubiquity of the Internet in the developed world has been the facilitation of a new age of entrepreneurship.

Silicon Valley Sets Its Sights on Africa |Christian Borys |December 22, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
“I think as the ubiquity of French fries prove, everyone loves a crispy fried potato,” he said in an email.

I Ate Potato Pancakes Til I Plotzed |Emily Shire |December 17, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The argument for open carry goes that the ubiquity of guns will normalize them in the public eye.

Gun Control Group Moms Demand Action Asking Kroger to Ban Guns in Stores |Brandy Zadrozny |August 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Just consider the ubiquity of the products: the Honeywell thermostat, the Saul Bass credit scenes.

How Jews Created American Modernism |Andrew Romano |August 1, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

As with most things, the British comedy Absolutely Fabulous skewered the absurdity years before its current ubiquity.

The New Right-Wing Idol: Working Moms |Tim Teeman |July 16, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Then there's Jenkins, why here's a way provided, through the benignity and ubiquity of the law—for at once satisfying this debt.

The Frontiersmen |Gustave Aimard
And this record gives some notion of the extraordinary energy and ubiquity of the Athenian armies.

Euripedes and His Age |Gilbert Murray
His ubiquity, his omniscience, have indeed never been disproved by his critics or his enemies.

The Works of Honor de Balzac |Honor de Balzac
He has raised us to partake, as it were, in the ubiquity of his own beneficence.

A History of American Christianity |Leonard Woolsey Bacon
Its home is ubiquity; like the sphere of Hermes, its centre is everywhere, its circumference nowhere.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 70, No. 433, November 1851 |Various