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immanency

immanency is the alternative form of immanence.

Meaning of immanence

Noun

immanence (countable and uncountable, plural immanences)

  1. The state of being immanent; inherency.
    • Here the conflict between male bonding and the companionship of the transcendent quest versus sexual love and involvement in the immanence of bodily life comes right out into the open.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 197
  2. The state of dwelling within and not extending beyond a given domain.
  3. (metaphysics) The concept of the presence of deity in and throughout the real world; the idea that God is everywhere and in everything. Contrast transcendence.

Forms of immanency

pluralimmanencies

Origin of immanency

From immanent + -cy.

Questions about immanency

What is immanency the alternative form of?
Immanency is the alternative form of immanence.

Words near immanency in the dictionary

  1. immane
  2. immanely
  3. immanence
  4. immanences
  5. immanencies
  6. immanency
  7. immanent
  8. immanent critique
  9. immanent critiques
  10. immanental
  11. immanentise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: immanency (page history and authors); immanence (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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