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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

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

An omniscient voice is already calling out each of our names as we enter the arena, the voice deep and reverberating, and as it does, each name rotates in flames in the arena’s center.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu




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