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

Etymology

Origin of immanence

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

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• immanence vs. transcendence

Example Sentences

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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,” Erens writes.

From Slate ● May 2, 2016

While our hope of knowing God rests on His immanence yet the idea of immanence has not been sufficiently clarified to meet our practical demands.

From What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul by Swain, Richard la Rue