: presence everywhere or in many places especially simultaneously : omnipresence

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Their cheap convenience and ubiquity in restaurant service is a big reason any person with a food or food-adjacent job (including just about everybody who works at this magazine) has a collection of these tumbling around in their cabinets. Wilder Davies, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026 By the mid-2010s, selfies snapped inside Kusama’s vast and boundless galaxies began to flood Instagram in mesmeric ubiquity. Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026 And that’s a bit of a problem, because nothing ruins the allure of the new and novel quite like ubiquity. Byron Hurd, The Drive, 27 Aug. 2026 If a movie script didn’t light the world on fire, there was still a shot at ubiquity through the soundtrack. Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ubiquity

Word History

Etymology

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

First Known Use

1572, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of ubiquity was in 1572

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“Ubiquity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ubiquity. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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