omniscient
adjective/ɒmˈnɪsiənt/
/ɑːmˈnɪʃənt/
(formal)- knowing everything
- The novel has an omniscient narrator.
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from medieval Latin omniscient- ‘all-knowing’, based on scire ‘to know’.Definitions on the go
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