omniscient
om-NISH-untadjMeaning knowing everything there is to know
Memory hook OMNI + SCIence: KNOWS it ALL. With her back to the room, Granny Mae says, “Pip, put that cookie back.” She knows everything that happens in her kitchen; she seems omniscient.
The story is told by an omniscient narrator who knows every character’s secret thoughts.
In context Grandma seemed omniscient to us kids: she always knew who had eaten the cookies, who had tracked in the mud and who had skipped brushing their teeth.
Similar all-knowing, all-seeing
Opposite ignorant, unaware
From Latin omnis (all) + sciens (knowing), the root of science.