noun ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The state or condition of being about to happen; imminent quality. uncountable, usually

   "For three years there had been pestilence, and in the last of the three a famine; moreover, there was imminence of war."

2. 2
   the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon wordnet

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accessaccessionadvanceadventaffluxaffluxion

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"For three years there had been pestilence, and in the last of the three a famine; moreover, there was imminence of war."

Etymology

From Late Latin imminentia.

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