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immanity

immanity noun: great size; enormousness, hugeness.

Noun

immanity (countable and uncountable, plural immanities)

  1. (obsolete) Great size; enormousness, hugeness.
  2. (obsolete) Outrageous cruelty or savagery; enormity.
    • […] I alvvayes thought / It vvas both impious and vnnaturall, / That ſuch immanity and bloody ſtrife / Should reigne among Profeſſors of one Faith.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • ‘Barbarous immanity’ (Melancthon terms it) ‘and folly to be deplored, so to contemn the percepts of health[…]’1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section...

Forms of immanity

pluralimmanities

Origin of immanity

From Latin immānitās.

Questions about immanity

What does immanity mean?
Immanity means great size; enormousness, hugeness.
What part of speech is immanity?
Immanity is a noun.
What is the plural of immanity?
The plural of immanity is immanities.

Words near immanity in the dictionary

  1. immanentizing
  2. immanently
  3. immanifest
  4. immanifestness
  5. immanities
  6. immanity
  7. immantle
  8. immantled
  9. immantles
  10. immantling
  11. Immanuel

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