immanence
Americannoun
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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.
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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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Joyce’s presence in this city is already radically overdetermined, overbearing in its intimacy and immanence.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2019
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
We’ve passed from the costs of totalitarian societies and their inherent barbarism to the risks of globalized societies and the immanence of their barbarity.”
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2016
The Fatherhood of God and the Unity of God, the immanence of God in nature and His management of all the affairs of the universe, was his constantly reiterated belief.
From Alaska Days with John Muir by Young, Samual Hall
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