Omniscience , mainly in
religion, is the capacity to know everything that there is to know. In particular,
Hinduism and the
Abrahamic religions (
Judaism,
Christianity, and
Islam) believe that there is a
divine being who is omniscient. An
omniscient point-of-view, in writing, is to know everything that can be known about a character, including past history, thoughts, feelings, etc. In
Latin,
omnis means "all" and
sciens means "knowing".