imminence
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English
Etymology
From Late Latin imminentia.
Noun
imminence (usually uncountable, plural imminences)
- The state or condition of being about to happen; imminent quality.
- 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: Elkin Mathews, , →OCLC, page 61:
- For three years there had been pestilence, and in the last of the three a famine; moreover, there was imminence of war.
Translations
state or condition of being imminent
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin imminentia.
Pronunciation
Noun
imminence f (plural imminences)
- imminence
Related terms
Further reading
- “imminence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.