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Dictionaryomniscientcomplete knowledge
adjective

omniscient

ahm-NISH-unt/ɑːmˈnɪʃənt/

Knowing everything.

The narrator is presented as omniscient, overlooking all the characters’ separate situations.

An adult narrator figure looking calmly over multiple simultaneous small scenes in a cutaway house, knowing all characters' situations, South Asian woman, no magic violence.
Etymology
omniLatinall
+scientLatinknow

The pieces express 'knowing all.' The adjective was formed from a noun meaning 'all-knowledge,' turning the state of unlimited knowledge into a description of whoever possesses it.

In context

misesmedia18:10
But the expectations of these agents are basically empirical, not omniscient. They um agents determine forecasts tomorrow's price of gasoline the same way economists do.
Misesian Insights for Modern Macroeconomics | J. Huston McCulloch

More examples

  • An omniscient being would know every hidden thought.
  • The manager was well informed but hardly omniscient.
  • The story’s omniscient voice reveals events no character witnesses.

Forms

omniscient

omniscience noun — knowledge of everything

Similar words

all-knowing
All-knowing is the plain equivalent; omniscient is common in theology and literary narration.
well-informed
Well-informed knows much; omniscient literally has no gaps in knowledge.