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omniscient

äm-ˈni-shənt 3 syllables rare

  1. adjective.having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight

    • a novel with an omniscient narrator =a narrator who knows what all the characters are doing and thinking
    • the narrator seems an omniscient person who tells us about the characters and their relations
  2. adjective.possessed of universal or complete knowledge

    • the omniscient God

Origin

New Latin omniscient-, omnisciens, back-formation from Medieval Latin omniscientia.

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