omniscient narrator

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Noun

omniscient narrator (plural omniscient narrators)

  1. (literary theory, narratology) A narrator with an overarching perspective, seeing and knowing everything that happens within the world of the story, including what each of the characters is thinking and feeling.
    Coordinate term: unreliable narrator

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