Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Existing or remaining within; inherent.
- adjective Restricted entirely to the mind; subjective.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Remaining within; indwelling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Remaining within; inherent; indwelling; abiding; intrinsic; internal or subjective; hence, limited in activity, agency, or effect, to the subject or associated acts; -- opposed to
emanant ,transitory ,transitive , orobjective .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Naturally part of something; existingthroughout andwithin something;inherent ;integral ;intrinsic ;indwelling . - adjective
Restricted entirely to themind or a given domain;internal ;subjective . - adjective philosophy, metaphysics, theology existing
within andthroughout the mind and the world; dwelling within and throughout all things, all time, etc. Comparetranscendent . - adjective philosophy, of a mental act Taking place entirely within the mind of the subject and having no effect outside of it. Compare
emanant ,transeunt . - adjective Being within the limits of experience or knowledge.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of a mental act performed entirely within the mind
- adjective of qualities that are spread throughout something
Etymologies
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Examples
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Concepts were not in his eyes the static self-contained things that previous logicians had supposed, but were germinative, and passed beyond themselves into each other by what he called their immanent dialectic.
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876
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Of course I meant "immanent" -- a rather different thing.
Hillary's Internet Guru: Obama's Web Team Deserves Tremendous Credit 2009
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The first problem hinges on what is known as the immanent Trinity, or the Trinity before the creation of the world.
Darren Iammarino - The Emergence of God William Harryman 2009
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Marty himself came to have misgivings about the notion of immanent objects and his term “content of judgment” in his main work must not be taken as an indication of something that actually or
Anton Marty Rollinger, Robin 2008
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Therefore, the genera in the particulars do seem to represent, on Italos™ view, what they represent for Proclus and Syrianus, namely immanent forms that are particular.
Byzantine Philosophy Ierodiakonou, Katerina 2008
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It is, from the standpoint of their propaganda or from the standpoint of what Adorno calls immanent critique I should say that Adorno took that from Herman Dooyeweerd who first mentioned immanent critique back in 1922 , a lousy speech.
Friday, January 20, 2006 As'ad 2006
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It is, from the standpoint of their propaganda or from the standpoint of what Adorno calls immanent critique I should say that Adorno took that from Herman Dooyeweerd who first mentioned immanent critique back in 1922 , a lousy speech.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006 As'ad 2006
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Thus, vital action, as well in the physiological as in the intellectual and moral order, is called immanent, because it proceeds from that spontaneity which is essential to the living subject and has for its term the unfolding of the subject's constituent energies.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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When, however, this finality is called immanent, this expression must not be understood in a pantheistic sense, as if the intelligence which the world manifests were to be identified with the world itself, but in the sense that the immediate principle of finality is immanent in every being.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Personally, I could have just about accepted some kind of immanent spirit of humanity trying to move the pieces around, or even some kind of overmind, just about anything except god and angels.
Battlestar Galactica’s Last Half-Hour: An Epic Failure Of Storytelling « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009
tracert commented on the word immanent
"They knew that something important was happening there, that there was some focusing point, some channel, some window to the Immanent. And so they would build temples or cathedrals, or erect stone circles, or... well, you get the idea."
-Mr. Wednesday, American Gods
March 6, 2009
rolig commented on the word immanent
Not to be confused with imminent.
June 9, 2009
Dan337 commented on the word immanent
Please follow the link for handy mnemonics and more usage notes.January 1, 2011
shanvrolijk commented on the word immanent
"the cause of problems which are immanent to today's global capitalism is projected onto an external intruder. Anti-immigrant racism and sexism is not dangerous because it lies; it is at its most dangerous when its lie is presented in the form of a (partial) factual truth."
February 20, 2018