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IMMINENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being imminent and liable to happen soon
Synonyms:
forthcomingness; imminence; imminency; imminentness; impendence; impendency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("imminence" is a kind of...):
state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)
Derivation:
imminent (close in time; about to occur)