omniscient

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It effectively assumes the omniscient voice of a silent narrator.

From New York Times

All fiction deals with the underlying question of how it is being told — are we listening in on someone’s thoughts, or an omniscient narrator, something else?

From Los Angeles Times

The “Jeopardy!” lectern grants every host an omniscient perspective, a preternatural awareness of the question to every answer.

From New York Times

There’s no reason that hunger wouldn’t know what happened to humanity from the beginning of time, and so I can create a deeper narrative that way, because the voice can be more omnipotent and omniscient.

From Los Angeles Times

Further, it approaches formerly colonized, brutalized and looted nations—colloquially known as “developing countries”—with a deficit model that positions Western society as an omniscient benefactor for the rest of the world.

From Scientific American