omniscient
adj.adj. knowing or seeing everything. In books, it describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
adj. having infinite knowledge or awareness; all-knowing. In a literary context, it refers to a narrator with access to the thoughts and feelings of all characters and events.
The author uses an omniscient narrator to tell the story.
Unlike a first-person perspective, an omniscient narrator can jump between different characters' minds and reveal secrets they do not know.
The novel's omniscient narrator provides a detached, comprehensive view of the village, allowing the reader to see the hidden motivations of every resident.
From Medieval Latin omnisciens (“all-knowing”), from Latin omnis (“all”) + sciens (“knowing”) (further analysable via scient).