immanent

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: im=ma=nent

CIDE DICTIONARY

immanent, a. [L. immanens, p. pr. of immanere to remain in or near; pref. im- in + manere to remain: cf. F. immanent.].

 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, or objective.  [1913 Webster]
"A cognition is an immanent act of mind."  [1913 Webster]
"An immanent power in the life of the world."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

immanent, adj.
1 (often foll. by in) indwelling, inherent.
2 (of the supreme being) permanently pervading the universe (opp. TRANSCENDENT).

Derivative

immanence n. immanency n. immanentism n. immanentist n.

Etymology

LL immanere (as IN-(2), manere remain)

THESAURUS

immanent

accessible, actual, as is, at hand, attendant, available, being, contemporaneous, contemporary, current, deep-seated, esoteric, existent, existing, extant, fresh, immediate, implanted, implicit, in view, inalienable, indwelling, infixed, ingrained, inherent, inner, instant, internal, intrinsic, inward, inwrought, irreducible, latest, modern, new, on board, on deck, on hand, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, private, resident, running, secret, subjective, that be, that is, topical, unalienable, unchallengeable, unquestionable, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute, within call, within reach, within sight

ROGET THESAURUS

immanent

Intrinsicality

N intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion, subjectiveness, ego, egohood, essence, noumenon, essentialness, essential part, quintessence, incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core, sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul, important part, principle, nature, constitution, character, type, quality, crasis, diathesis, habit, temper, temperament, spirit, humor, grain, disposition, endowment, capacity, capability, moods, declensions, features, aspects, peculiarities, idiosyncrasy, oddity, idiocrasy, diagnostics, derived from within, subjective, intrinsic, intrinsical, fundamental, normal, implanted, inherent, essential, natural, innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought, coeval with birth, genetous, haematobious, syngenic, radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent, congenital, congenite, connate, running in the blood, ingenerate, ingenite, indigenous, in the grain, bred in the bone, instinctive, inward, internal, to the manner born, virtual, characteristic, invariable, incurable, incorrigible, ineradicable, fixed, intrinsically, at bottom, in the main, in effect, practically, virtually, substantially, au fond, fairly, character is higher than intellect, come give us a taste of your quality, magnos homines virtute metimur non fortuna, non numero haec judicantur sed pondere, vital spark of heavenly flame.