Meanings of omniscient narrator in English

The real omniscient narrator is always way up there.

Read "The Ballroom of Romance" for the first time and you might think the final lines belong to an omniscient narrator.

He isn't really an omniscient narrator, there is no authorial voice - just an imagination that is more than adequate to its task.

A modern-day bullshit detector is cranked to the max in Private Citizens, as an omniscient narrator takes on the pretensions of the millennial lifestyle.

It's as if Miller felt obliged to create a character to embody that most taken for granted of all storytelling techniques: the third-person omniscient narrator.

Shadowing the protagonist's perspective, the omniscient narrator likens this act of low-key voyeurism to "peering down a microscope at the secret structure of a cell".