omniscience
noun
om·ni·science
äm-ˈni-shən(t)s 
: the quality or state of being omniscient
the brilliant military mind … gradually became infected by a conviction of military and political omniscience—
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The use of negative space, playfulness with light and dark, and sense of omniscience then played important roles in the design of these churches.
—Suyin Haynes, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
Named after the mystical seeing stones in The Lord of the Rings, Palantir sells the same aura of omniscience.
—TIME, 8 Feb. 2024
The precision of Mason’s perspective involves a kind of omniscience that feels equally microscopic and moral.
—Ron Charles, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
Here Shteyngart uses a 19th-century-style omniscience, moving from mind to mind within a scene (and, like Tolstoy, even occasionally inhabiting the minds of animals) while drawing back and commenting to the reader from a perspective that none of the characters are privy to.
—New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
Neither party can claim omniscience.
—Ezra Klein New York Times, Star Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
The same omniscience that once led him to embrace the Iraq War is now reborn in a manifesto that would make foreign intervention rare, transforming the United States into a Western nation like every other: isolationist by default, timid by inclination.
—Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
The story benefits from this sense of omniscience.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2022
As Eugenides has pointed out, American postmodernism, as practiced by writers such as John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, and Robert Coover, was political in nature: these writers’ distrust of narrative omniscience was linked to their distrust of the U.S. government.
—Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
Suyin Haynes, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
Named after the mystical seeing stones in The Lord of the Rings, Palantir sells the same aura of omniscience.
—TIME, 8 Feb. 2024
The precision of Mason’s perspective involves a kind of omniscience that feels equally microscopic and moral.
—Ron Charles, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
Here Shteyngart uses a 19th-century-style omniscience, moving from mind to mind within a scene (and, like Tolstoy, even occasionally inhabiting the minds of animals) while drawing back and commenting to the reader from a perspective that none of the characters are privy to.
—New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
Neither party can claim omniscience.
—Ezra Klein New York Times, Star Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
The same omniscience that once led him to embrace the Iraq War is now reborn in a manifesto that would make foreign intervention rare, transforming the United States into a Western nation like every other: isolationist by default, timid by inclination.
—Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
The story benefits from this sense of omniscience.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2022
As Eugenides has pointed out, American postmodernism, as practiced by writers such as John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, and Robert Coover, was political in nature: these writers’ distrust of narrative omniscience was linked to their distrust of the U.S. government.
—Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
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omniscience
noun
om·ni·science
äm-ˈnish-ən(t)s
: the quality or state of being omniscient
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