imminence

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
The lowering imminence--the bloody eyed?

View all »
Definitions (6)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. noun The quality or condition of being about to occur.
  2. noun Something about to occur.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (2)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • And found that he was thankful after all for the imminence of the game of croquet. —  Mary Balogh - The Incurable Matchmaker
  • The courts correctly have rejected defendants' reliance on Brandenburg ; and, in particular, have refused to accept defendants' arguments that the "imminence" requirements of the Brandenburg test apply to such aiding and abetting cases. —  Report on the Availability of Bombmaking Information
  • The image takes over as if trying to announce imminence. —  Powered by Joomla! 1.0
  • Haaretz article on the looming battle for Gaza underscore the imminence of a huge clash between the IDF and Hamas, a major moment in the global war between jihadists and their enemies, but the situation doesn't seem to be receiving much attention in the U.S. —  Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
  • The article implies the imminence of this threat based on claims made by a so-called former CSIS official. —  Palestine Blogs aggregator
More examples »
 

Tags

imminence hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 46 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. = French imminence = Spanish inminencia = Portuguese imminencia=Italian imminenza, from Latin imminentia, inminentia, from imminen(t-)s, inminen(t-)s, present participle of imminere, inminere, project over: see imminent.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈɪmɪnəns/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a year.

Recently looked up

infectious · shirker · horrendum · metaphor · allotment

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Im dichten Fichtendickicht sind dicke Fichten wichtig. · Häufungspunkte · superkalifragilistischexpiallegetisch · wub wub · merch