ubiquity

noun ubiq·ui·ty \ yü-ˈbi-kwə-tē \

|Updated on: 17 Jun 2018

Definition of ubiquity

: presence everywhere or in many places especially simultaneously : omnipresence

Recent Examples of ubiquity from the Web

The scent that Malle is arguably best known for, though, is Carnal Flower, whose ubiquity in New York fashion and social circles is a modern-day Joy or Fracas (though Malle would likely cringe at the notion of it being compared to any scent).

— jane larkworthy, The Cut, "Frédéric Malle Wishes He Invented Perfume," 5 June 2018
For many years, Campanella appeared to work to the point of ubiquity.

— kansascity, "In memoriam list for May 20: Author Tom Wolfe, Margot ‘Lois Lane’ Kidder | The Kansas City Star," 20 May 2018
With this level of celebrity endorsement, crystals have reached a new level of ubiquity, making their way into Hollywood homes, viral beauty looks, and, now, lingerie.

— halie lesavage, Glamour, "Healing Crystal Bras: Millennial Marketing Ploy or Self-Help Savior? We Investigate," 1 May 2018
The ubiquity of Microsoft’s operating systems had raised initial concern, but Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s entry into the web-browser marketplace, had stoked further worry.

— ian bogost, The Atlantic, "The Dot-Coms Were Better Than Facebook," 13 Apr. 2018
The reality that some men comment on, threaten, masturbate in front of, intimidate and assault female bodies is finally being brought out of the dark ubiquity of women’s personal experience and into the light of public discourse.

— nadia bolz-weber, Washington Post, "We’re in the midst of an apocalypse. And that’s a good thing.," 14 Mar. 2018
The ubiquity of such endeavors often means the results are pretty indistinctive, but numerous things set Williams’s version apart from those of other artists.

— peter margasak, Chicago Reader, "New Zealand singer Marlon Williams delivers a breakup album with all of the conflicting emotions of the real thing," 2 Mar. 2018
Throughout the intervening decades, organists have gone through ebbs and flows, reaching ubiquity in the '60s and '70s.

— rob ledonne, Billboard, "Dodgers Organist Dieter Ruehle Tells the Story Behind His Dream Job," 7 June 2018
This is the sublime, but in Aldred’s hands its not a domineering sublimity that seeks to own the landscape, to assert the ubiquity of the human soul.

— josephine livingstone, The New Republic, "Shaking the Tree," 30 May 2018

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Origin and Etymology of ubiquity

Latin ubique everywhere, from ubi where + -que, enclitic generalizing particle; akin to Latin quis who and to Latin -que and — more at who, sesqui-

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First Known Use: 1572

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