immanence

American  

[im-uh-nuhns] / ˈɪm ə nəns /

Rarely immanency

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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Other Word Forms

• nonimmanence
  noun
• nonimmanency
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of immanence

imman(ent) ( def. ) + -ence ( def. )

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Compare meaning

How does immanence compare to similar and commonly confused words? Explore the most common comparisons:

• immanence vs. transcendence

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

immanence

Joyce’s presence in this city is already radically overdetermined, overbearing in its intimacy and immanence.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2019

But in “Song to Song” both the familiarity of his aesthetic and the inability of some of his actors to summon an inner light create immaculately photographed surfaces rather than immanence.

From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2017

From the moment a strange woman named Lioness Lazos appears in the mundane, rundown lives of a pair of aging lovers, magic’s immanence blooms.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2016

We have been trained to see childbirth as all immanence, an event that is confined to our bodies and evaporates in the next days or weeks as our memories of the pain recedes.

From Slate ● May 2, 2016

Although the anthropomorphic idea of God has such widespread dominion in Occidental thought the immanence of God is plainly taught and repeatedly emphasized in the Christian scriptures.

From Elementary Theosophy by L. W. (Louis William) Rogers

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