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IMMINENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does imminence mean?
• IMMINENCE (noun)
The noun IMMINENCE has 1 sense:
1. the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon
Familiarity information: IMMINENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being imminent and liable to happen soon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
forthcomingness; imminence; imminency; imminentness; impendence; impendency
Hypernyms ("imminence" is a kind of...):
state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)
Derivation:
imminent (close in time; about to occur)
Context examples
Continually changing its intensity and abruptly variant in pitch, it impinged on his nerves and senses, made him nervous and restless and worried him with a perpetual imminence of happening.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It was this imminence of the danger which warmed our hearts to our sailors, and made us talk, round the winter fires, of our little Nelson, and Cuddie Collingwood, and Johnnie Jarvis, and the rest of them, not as being great High Admirals with titles and dignities, but as good friends whom we loved and honoured above all others.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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