Immanent

  

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Immanent

Definition: Immanent

Immanent

Adjective

1. (philosophy) of a mental act; occurring entirely within the mind.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "immanent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Etymology: Immanent \Im"ma*nent\, adjective. [Latin expression immanens, present participle of immanere to remain in or near; prefix im- in manere to remain: compare to the French expression immanent.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Immanent

Synonym: subjective (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: transeunt (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Immanent

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Intrinsicality

Adjective: derived from within, subjective; intrinsic, intrinsical; fundamental, normal; implanted, inherent, essential, natural; innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought; coeval with birth, genetous, haematobious, syngenic; radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent; congenital, congenite; connate, running in the blood; ingenerate, ingenite; indigenous; in the grain; Noun: bred in the bone, instinctive; inward, internal; to the manner born; virtual.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Immanent

English words defined with "immanent": red alertsword of Damoclesthreat. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Immanent" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (immanent), German (immanent, immanently, inherent, internal, intrinsic, organic), Swedish (immanent).

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Commercial Usage: Immanent

DomainTitle

Books

  • Conceptualizing Religion: Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories (reference)

  • Divine Freedom and the Doctrine of the Immanent Trinity (reference)

  • Immanent Art: From Structure to Meaning in Traditional Oral Epic (reference)

  • Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz, A Bilingual Edition (reference)

  • Le Dieu immanent : la grande tentation de la pensée allemande (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Immanent

"Immanent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Immanent" is used about 57 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%5744,859

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Immanent

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "immanent": text-immanent.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Immanent

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

immanent

8

domain immanent

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Immanent

Language Translations for "immanent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

imanent, i brendshëm (domestic, esoteric, indoor, inland, inlying, inner, inside, interior, internal, intestine, intimate, intramural, intrinsic, inward, Midland, seamy). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ملازم (attendant, collateral, inherent, innate, inseparable, lieutenant). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

свойствен (congenial, habitual, inherent, intrinsic, peculiar, proper, specific), присъщ (incidental, indigenous, inherent, innate, intrinsic, native, natural, proper, radical, resident), иманентен. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

内在 (Endogenous, Endogenously, inner, intrinsic, intrinsical, Intrinsics). (various references)

   

Czech

  

imanentní. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

ماندگار (Indelible, Indissoluble, Settler), اصلی (Arch, Basic, Cardinal, Elementary, Essential, Fundametal, Genuine, Germinal, Head, Ingrown, Inherent, Initial, Innate, Intrinsic, Main, Net, Original, Primary, Prime, Primordial, Principal, Seminal), دارای نفوذکامل درسرتاسرجهان , درهمه جاحاضر. (various references)

   

French

  

immanent. (various references)

   

German

  

immanent (immanently, inherent, internal, intrinsic, organic), einbegriffen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

έμφυτοσ (inborn, inbred, inherent, innate, instinctive, native, natural), ενυπάρχων (inherent). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

immanens. (various references)

   

Italian

  

immanente. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

内在的 (internal, intrinsic). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ないざいてき (internal, intrinsic). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

내재하". (various references)

   

Manx

  

immeanagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

immanentay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

imanência (immanence, immanency). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

permanent (abiding, fixed, lastingly, perennial, perm, permanent, permanent wave, permanently, perpetual, standing, steady), general (all round, broad, common, general, generic, grand, rife, universal, usual). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

постоянный (abiding, changeless, chronic, constant, continuous, direct, eternal, hard, hourly, in ordinary, invariable, invariant, perdurable, perm, permanent, perpetual, persistent, regular, settled, stationary, uniform, unvarying), имманентный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

imanentan, koji se nalazi u. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

inmanente. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

inneboende (inborn, inherent, intrinsic, lodger), immanent. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ซึ่งอยู่ ายใน (คำทางการ). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

her yerde bulunan, hazır ve nazır, özünde var olan. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

іманентний, властивий (appropriate, built in, congenial, facultative, incident, incidental, inherent, innate, native, proper, resident), постійний (abiding, blue, certain, changeless, chronic, constant, continual, frequent, hourly, never failing, perdurable, permanent, regular, sedentary, settled, standing, stationary, steady, uniform). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Immanent

Derivations

Words beginning with "immanent": immanentism, immanentisms, immanentist, immanentistic, immanentists, immanently. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Immanent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emmanent, emmenent, imanan, imanent, imenent, iminant, iminent, immanant, immanentist, immanenyt, immanet, immenent, immiment, imminant, imminemt, imminen, imminens, imminents, imminient, immminent, immnent, imnanent, inminent, manent, Rimminen. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Immanent"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "immanent" (pronounced i"mununt)
7i" m u n u n timminent.
6-m u n u n tcontaminant, determinant, dominant, eminent, permanent, predominant, preeminent, prominent, ruminant, semipermanent.
5-u n u n tabstinent, consonant, continent, covenant, dissonant, impertinent, incontinent, pertinent, recombinant, resonant, subcontinent.
4-n u n tcomplainant, component, exponent, indignant, lieutenant, malignant, opponent, pennant, pregnant, proponent, remnant, repugnant, stagnant, tenant.
3-u n tabandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complaisant, complement, compliant, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contentment, contestant, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immigrant, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, percipient, persistent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, pronouncement, propellant, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Immanent

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-m-n-n-t"

-1 letter: mannite.

-2 letters: ammine, etamin, immane, inmate, innate, tamein, tammie, tinman, tinmen.

-3 letters: ament, amine, anent, anime, entia, inane, mamie, matin, meant, menta, minae, tenia, tinea.

-4 letters: amen, amie, amin, ante, anti, emit, etna, imam, item, maim, main, mane, mate, mean, meat, meta, mien, mime, mina, mine, mint, mite, name, neat, nema, nine, nite, tain, tame, team, time, tine.

-5 letters: aim, ain, ait, ami, ane, ani, ant, ate, eat, eta, inn, mae, man, mat, mem, men, met, mim, nae, nam, nan, net, nim, nit, tae, tam, tan, tea, ten, tie, tin.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-m-n-n-t"
 

+1 letter: minuteman.

 

+2 letters: immanently.

 

+3 letters: immanentism, immanentist, impermanent, methenamine, multimanned.

 

+4 letters: admonishment, antifeminism, commendation, commentating, immanentisms, immanentists, meningiomata, methenamines, misalignment, misdemeanant, monofilament, nonmetameric, semidominant.

 

+5 letters: accompaniment, admonishments, antifeminisms, commendations, dismantlement, immanentistic, impermanently, intercommunal, intermembrane, magnanimities, mainstreaming, masterminding, misalignments, misdemeanants, mismanagement, momentariness, monofilaments, monumentality, monumentalize, nonmainstream, semipermanent.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Immanent


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6D 6D 61 6E 65 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    --    --    .-    -.    .    -.    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101101 01101101 01100001 01101110 01100101 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#109 &#109 &#97 &#110 &#101 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006D 006D 0061 006E 0065 006E 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4379796780718086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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