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IMMINENCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does imminency mean?
• IMMINENCY (noun)
The noun IMMINENCY has 1 sense:
1. the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon
Familiarity information: IMMINENCY 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 ("imminency" is a kind of...):
state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)
Derivation:
imminent (close in time; about to occur)
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