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In a work of fiction, what does an omniscient narrator know?

omniscient

[om-nish-uhnt] / ɒmˈnɪʃ ənt /




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We would like to leave no moment uncaptured, would like to at least try to become pearly, hairless, omniscient idealized beings, even if this desire lurks somewhere beneath what we’d consciously admit.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

“Nothing goes away,” the omniscient narrator observes of a ruined cottage that Tomás rebuilds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Yet economic policy-makers are neither omniscient nor omnipotent.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 11, 2026

I loved all the examples of Hitchcock’s omniscient point of view.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2024

In short, the historical record itself, and not just our own omniscient imaginations, provides the requisite evidence from which we can reconstruct the response to the proslavery argument.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis


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