immanent - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'immanent' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Immanent

[ a.]

- Remaining within; inherent; indwelling; abiding; intrinsic; internal or subjective; hence, limited in activity, agency, or effect, to the subject or associated acts; -- opposed to emanant, transitory, transitive, or objective.

Meaning of 'immanent' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . immanent

[ a]

Meaning (1):
- of a mental act performed entirely within the mind

Example in sentence:

a cognition is an immanent act of mind

2 . immanent

[ s]

Meaning (2):
- of qualities that are spread throughout something

Example in sentence:

ambition is immanent in human nature;
we think of God as immanent in nature

Nearby Words:

immaculate immailed immalleable immanacle immanacled immanacling immanation immane immanence immanency

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Immanentjustice is the idea that punishment for wrong doing is absolute and inevitable; that even if undetected, wrong doing will be followed by retribution

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