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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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Here’s what I know: There’s a fetus inside a woman’s uterus, and the fetus can communicate in an omniscient, echoing Minnie Mouse voice with its mother.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 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

Sometimes perspectives shift within a page, within a scene, moving rapidly and gleefully between points of view, and using that omniscient voice to steer us around — that was fun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

I accepted the idea that an omniscient God had cast me in his own image and that he watched over me and guided me from one place to the next.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris


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