ubiquity

noun

ubiq·​ui·​ty yü-ˈbi-kwə-tē How to pronounce ubiquity (audio)
: presence everywhere or in many places especially simultaneously : omnipresence

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Reubens ascended to cultural ubiquity in the 1980s with his smash hit character, Pee-wee Herman. Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 23 May 2025 At the same time, many hands-on practitioners see it as further afield and might list it as a still-embryonic technology, due to fact that its mass market ubiquity is clearly lower in terms of penetration. Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025 Khan’s paper had argued that, given Amazon’s ubiquity in American life, the company should either be subject to strong antitrust enforcement or be regulated like a public utility. Clare Malone, New Yorker, 12 May 2025 Yet given the near ubiquity of these stellar pairs, very few planets have been discovered on circumbinary orbits — just 16 up until now. Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 May 2025 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 4 Jun. 2025.

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