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NOUN:
Existence or apparent existence everywhere at the same time; omnipresence: "the repetitiveness, the selfsameness, and the ubiquity of modern mass culture" (Theodor Adorno ).

ETYMOLOGY:
New Latin ubquits, from Latin ubque, everywhere : ub, where; see kwo- in Indo-European roots + -que, and, generalizing particle; see kwe in Indo-European roots


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