Omnipotents

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Possessing unlimited power, authority, and influence over all things
2. having the ability to do anything without limitation, typically attributed to a deity or supreme being
3. embodying the quality of having absolute dominion and control in any situation or circumstance

Etymology: "Omnipotents" is simply the plural of "omnipotent", used as a noun for all-powerful divine beings. The adjective is built from the Latin "omnis", meaning "all", and "potens", meaning "powerful" or "able", the same root that gives English "potent" and "potential". Together they describe something with power over everything. The adjective came into English through Old French, which had taken the Latin "omnipotens" over from classical writers and Christian Latin, where it was a standard epithet for God. Middle English adopted it in that religious setting, so the word's earliest life was theological, applied to the Christian deity before anyone used it of ordinary rulers or forces. The plural noun follows the same pattern: it treats each all-powerful being as one of a class, so the plural names a group of such beings, a use that sits comfortably beside the adjective's long religious associations.

Synonyms: almighties, all-powerful beings

Antonyms: impotents, powerless beings