imminence

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin imminentia.

Noun

imminence (usually uncountable, plural imminences)

1. The state or condition of being about to happen; imminent quality.
   • 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 61:

     For three years there had been pestilence, and in the last of the three a famine; moreover, there was imminence of war.

Translations

state or condition of being imminent

• Bulgarian: приближаване (bg) n (približavane), близост (bg) f (blizost)
• Catalan: imminència f
• French: imminence (fr) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forestående nærhet

• Scottish Gaelic: impis f
• Spanish: inminencia (es) f
• Swedish: förestående (sv)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imminentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.mi.nɑ̃s/
• Hyphenation: im‧mi‧nence

Noun

imminence f (plural imminences)

1. imminence

Related terms

• imminent
  • imminemment

Further reading

• “imminence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012