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Definition: Imminence |
ImminenceNoun1. The state of being imminent and liable to happen soon. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "imminence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references) |
Etymology: Imminence \Im"mi*nence\, noun. [Compare to the French expression imminence, from Latin expression imminentia, See Imminent.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: ImminenceSynonyms: forthcomingness (n), imminency (n), impendence (n), impendency (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Imminence |
| Specialty definitions using "imminence": INTENTION. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Imminence" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (imminence). |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act. |
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| "Imminence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Imminence" is used about 83 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 83 | 36,350 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Beginning with "imminence": imminence-awareness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "imminence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrezik (chance, danger, distress, fear, hazard, impendence, jeopardy, menace, peril, risk, riskiness), kërcënim (blackmail, chantage, commination, denouncement, intimidation, menace, saltation, threat, threatening), afërsi (adjacency, closeness, contiguity, familiarity, impendence, locality, nearness, neighborship, neighbourship, propinquity, proximity, vicinity). (various references) | |
Arabic | قرب حدوث, وشيك الحدوث (impending, in the wind), على وشك (about to, hairbreadth, upon). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | угроза, заплаха (danger, impendence, menace, threat, thunderbolt). (various references) | |
Chinese | 迫切 (insistent, urgent). (various references) | |
Czech | naléhavost (press, urge, urgency), hrozba (threat), bezprostřednost (directness, immediacy). (various references) | |
Farsi | مشرف بودن (Overhang), قرابت (Propinquity), وقوع خطرنزدیک . (various references) | |
French | imminence. (various references) | |
German | drohende Gefahr (menace). (various references) | |
Greek | εγγύτησ (closeness, nearness, propinquity, proximateness, proximity, vicinity). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "תקרבות "סכ ", "תרחשות קרוב". (various references) | |
Hungarian | veszély (danger, distress, hazard, jeopardy, lion in the path, lion in the way, menace, peril, risk), küszöbön állás, közelség (closeness, nearness, propinquity, proximity, vicinity). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 切迫 (acuteness, pressure, tension, urgency). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きゅうはく (distress, financial difficulty, urgency), しょうび (admiration, appreciatation, emergency, praise, prizing, rose, urgency), せっぱく (acuteness, end of the year, immaculate, pressure, pure, snow-white, tension, urgency). (various references) | |
Manx | gerrid (brevity, short time), gerrey (proximity). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imminenceay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | iminência (immediacy, impendence, instancy), funcionário do serviço de imigração. (various references) | |
Romanian | iminenţã (impendence). (various references) | |
Russian | угроза (commination, danger, fulmination, menace, threat), близость опасности. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bliskost (closeness, nearness, propinquity, vicinity). (various references) | |
Spanish | inminencia (impendence, nearness). (various references) | |
Swedish | omedelbar närhet. (various references) | |
Thai | การจวนเจียน. (various references) | |
Turkish | yaklaşan tehlike, yakınlık (adjacency, affinity, approximation, closeness, connection, connexion, contiguity, familiarity, immediacy, intimacy, kinship, nearness, propinquity, proximity, relationship, terms). (various references) | |
Ukranian | неминучість (certitude, destiny, imminency, impendence, infallibility, instancy, necessity, omnipresence), небезпека (danger, jeopardy, menace, peril), нависла загроза. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tình trạng sắp xảy ra điều sắp xảy ra (imminency), điều nhất định sẽ đến (imminency). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "imminence": imminences. (additional references) | |
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"Imminence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emminence, imipenem, imminance, imminen, imminens, indignance, maintence, minence, ominence, Rimminen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "imminence" (pronounced i"mununs) |
| 7 | i" m u n u n s | immanence. |
| 6 | -m u n u n s | chrominance, dominance, eminence, luminance, permanence, predominance, preeminence, prominence. |
| 5 | -u n u n s | abstinence, countenance, dissonance, incontinence, maintenance, ordinance, provenance, resonance, sustenance. |
| 4 | -n u n s | governance, Ordnance, penance. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, distance, disturbance, divergence, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminescence, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, performance, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, protuberance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-i-m-m-n-n" | |
-3 letters: icemen, meinie. | |
-4 letters: imine, mimic, mince, minim, niece. | |
-5 letters: cine, emic, meme, mice, mien, mime, mine, mini, neem, nene, nice, nine. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-i-m-m-n-n" | |
+1 letter: imminences. | |
+2 letters: immanencies, imminencies. | |
+4 letters: immunogenetic. | |
+5 letters: immunogenetics, impermanencies, incrementalism. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 6D 69 6E 65 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- -- .. -. . -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m m i n e n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 006D 0069 006E 0065 006E 0063 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)437979758071806971 |
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