ubiquitous

adj

Etymology: From ubiquity + -ous, from Medieval Latin ubīquitās, from Latin ubīque (“everywhere”), from ubī̆ (“where”) + -que (“each, ever”). Compare ubiety.

1. Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.

   “In Christianity, Hinduism, and Judaism, God is ubiquitous.”

2. Appearing to be everywhere at once; being or seeming to be in more than one location at the same time.

   “One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time.”

   “There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.”

3. Widespread; very prevalent.