immanentism

[im-uh-nuhn-tiz-uhm]

noun

1. the belief that the Deity indwells and operates directly within the universe or nature.

Other Word Forms

• immanentist adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of immanentism¹

First recorded in 1905–10; immanent + -ism

Example Sentences

“How indignant a humanistic liberal will be when he is told that his particular type of immanentism is one step on the road to Marxism,” he wrote.

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Granted the basal axiom of this type of immanentism, it follows with irresistible cogency that our separate existence, consciousness, volitions and so forth are merely illusions.

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