immanent
/im-uh-nuhnt/US // ˈɪm ə nənt //UK // (ˈɪmənənt) //
即时的,迫在眉睫,即将发生的,即将到来的
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adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : remaining within; indwelling; inherent.
- : Philosophy. taking place within the mind of the subject and having no effect outside of it.Compare transeunt.
- : Theology. indwelling the universe, time, etc.Compare transcendent.
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Examples
They need God to feel immanent, nearly material like a Greek deity, while we need God to be thought ineffable and mysterious.
And yet there was a likeness, not so much speaking as immanent, not so much in any particular feature as upon the whole.
Through its immanent psychical power it is to exercise magical coercion over the soul of the god or the saint.
The development, moreover, is not immanent in religion; it is the result of external causes.
This entire social complex has been subsumed under the principle that law is immanent in all history.
The spiritual life is thus individual and over-individual, historical and over-historical, transcendent and immanent.
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