omniscient
/ɒmˈnɪsɪənt
/adjective
Knowing everything: a third-person omniscient narrator...
- An omniscient author knows everything about everybody in the story.
- As Prague's omniscient narrator explains, the game is fundamentally flawed.
- It's certainly more cinematic than many comics for the simple fact that it has no thought balloons and no omniscient narrator.
Synonyms
all-knowing, all-wise, all-seeing
Derivatives
omnisciently
- Barker never writes omnisciently; even in the third person, the narration is always told from one character or another's point of view.
- Here the singer expresses a rather queasy fantasy - that of being able to control, or at least omnisciently observe, his lover's errant sexual behavior.
- You are expected as a doctor to be calm, absolutely competent at all time - omnisciently so - you have absolutely no margin of error.
Origin
Early 17th century: from medieval Latin omniscient- 'all-knowing', based on scire 'to know'.