Ubiquity is the state of being found absolutely everywhere. The ubiquity of the mobile phone, its sheer ubiquity, ubiquity of plastic.
It is a favourite of essays about technology, since the point is usually that something has become invisible by being everywhere. The Latin is simply everywhere, and the word was first used of God.
1nounubiquityThe state of being found absolutely everywhere.
“The ubiquity of the camera has changed how people behave in public.”
ubiquity is a state.
Medieval Latin ubiquitas comes from Latin ubique, everywhere; the word was coined in theological argument about God's presence.
Latin
ubīque
Medieval Latin
ubīquitās
English, today
ubiquity
From Medieval Latin ubīquitās, from Latin ubīque.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA