immanation

English

Etymology

From im- (“in”) + Latin manare (“to flow”). Compare mantio (“a flowing”).

Noun

immanation (plural immanations)

1. A flowing or entering in.

   Antonym: emanation

   • 1826, John Mason Good, “Lecture II. On the Nature and Duration of the Soul, as Explained by Popular Traditions, and Various Philosophical Speculations.”, in The Book of Nature. […], volumes III (Series III. Nature of the Mind: […].), London: […] [A[ndrew] & R. Spottiswoode] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], →OCLC, page 35:

     If we turn to the oldest hypotheses of the East,—to the Vedas of the Bramins and the Zendavesta of the Parsees,— […] we shall find indeed a full acknowledgement of the immortality of the soul, but only upon the sublime and mystical doctrine of emanation and immanation, as part of the great soul of the universe; […]

   • 1977, Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm:

     […] that the world is immanation, that God is in the thing, and eternally present here, if nowhere else.

Further reading

• “immanation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.