Meaning & use

omnilingual

adjective·Advanced

Able to understand, speak, or apply to every human language.

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The story's translator device was described as omnilingual, decoding any language instantly.

No real person is omnilingual, but skilled polyglots can approach dozens of languages.

A note on using this word

Omnilingual is rare outside science fiction and linguistics, where it describes a hypothetical universal capacity for language.

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