Definition of "omniscient" []

• Having total knowledge; knowing everything: an omniscient deity; the omniscient narrator. (adjective)
• One having total knowledge. (noun)
• God. Used with the. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Rob, I would never write anything in omniscient POV."
• "Her unironic use of the n-word (in omniscient narration, not spoken by a character) in the opening pages of The Violent Bear It Away should make anyone this side of Strom Thurmond squirm, something she seems to have realized, since it was edited out of later editions."
• "Point of view issues: the first-person omniscient is extremely difficult to carry off without making me run away, far away, very quickly."