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imminence
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun imminence has 1 sense
- imminence(n = noun.state) forthcomingness, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency - the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon; Array is a kind of state
Derived form adjective imminent1
CIDE DICTIONARY
imminence, n. [Cf. F. imminence, L. imminentia, See Imminent.].
- The condition or quality of being imminent; a threatening, as of something about to happen. The imminence of any danger or distress. Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- That which is imminent; impending evil or danger. Shak. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
imminence
access, accession, advance, advent, afflux, affluxion, aftertime, afteryears, anticipation, approach, approaching, appropinquation, approximation, appulse, bulldozing, by-and-by, certainty, coming, coming near, coming toward, commination, confidence, contemplation, course ahead, crystal ball, denunciation, determinism, distant future, empty threat, eventuality, expectancy, expectation, flowing toward, foreboding, foresight, forthcoming, forward look, future, future tense, futurism, futurity, hereafter, idle threat, immediate future, immediate prospect, implied threat, intimidation, menace, near future, nearing, nearness, offing, oncoming, outlook, posteriority, prediction, probability, project, promise of harm, prophecy, prospect, proximation, reliance, sword of Damocles, the future, the morrow, the sweet by-and-by, thought, threat, threateningness, threatfulness, time ahead, time just ahead, time to come, tomorrow, unastonishment, warning
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