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immanence

[ im-uh-nuhns ]

noun

  1. the state of being inherent or exclusively existing within something:

    “Place” is a fundamental concept; it has evaded theorizing because of its immanence and omnipresence.

  2. Theology. the state or quality of a Deity exclusively existing within the universe, time, etc.:

    A horizontal axis stretches from God’s immanence in the world, on the left, to transcendence of it, on the right.



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  • non·im·ma·nence noun
  • non·im·ma·nen·cy noun
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Example Sentences

Not only does the teaching of the immanence of God in the seas help the nations into closer fellowship.

Immanence—Agnosticism is the negative side of Modernism; immanence constitutes its positive constituent.

And, locally, there is also the immanence in the South of water competition by sea and river to be kept in mind.

It is just here that Buddhism is on the side of modern pantheism and immanence.

The mind is immanence of Being, an original relation to all we have named reality and worshipped as divine.

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