Meaning & use
omniscience
The quality or state of knowing everything.
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The professor's lecture on omniscience examined how an all-knowing god relates to human choice.
A novel's narrator can have omniscience, revealing every character's private thoughts to the reader.
A note on using this word
In literature, "omniscience" describes a narrator who knows and can reveal every character's thoughts and motives.
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