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omniscient

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om·nis·cient  (m-nshnt)
adj.
Having total knowledge; knowing everything: an omniscient deity; the omniscient narrator.
n.
1. One having total knowledge.
2. Omniscient God. Used with the.
[Medieval Latin omniscins, omniscient- : Latin omni-, omni- + Latin scins, scient-, present participle of scre, to know; see skei- in Indo-European roots.]
om·niscience, om·niscien·cy n.
om·niscient·ly adv.
omniscient [om-niss-ee-ent]
Adjective
Formal knowing or seeming to know everything [Latin omnis all + scire to know]
omniscience n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.omniscient - infinitely wise
all-knowing
wise - having or prompted by wisdom or discernment; "a wise leader"; "a wise and perceptive comment"


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One of those omniscient and awe-inspiring marvels, a detective, came up from St.
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
It appeared to be omniscient and omnipotent, and yet was neither seen nor heard.
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And when they will next come forth again, the fashionable intelligence--which, like the fiend, is omniscient of the past and present, but not the future--cannot yet undertake to say.
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