imminence
Other forms: imminences
Imminence is when something is just about to occur. You might talk about the imminence of snow on a cold, cloudy winter morning.
The noun imminence is good for describing the quality of something that's likely to happen soon. It comes from the adjective imminent, or "about to happen." A small country might worry about the imminence of invasion from a larger country, or you could predict the imminence of your dog running to bark at the door after hearing him growl at a noise outside. The Latin root word is imminere, "to overhang, impend, or be near."
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the state of being imminent and liable to happen soonsynonyms: forthcomingness, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendencytype of:statethe way something is with respect to its main attributes
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Vocabulary lists containing imminence
No one knows that seventeen-year-old Kiera Johnson is the developer behind a popular online role-playing game called SLAY. But when the game is linked to an act of violence in the real world, growing controversy puts both Kiera and her game at risk.
After the death of their daughter, Frank McCourt's impoverished immigrant parents decide to return to Ireland. With humor and tenderness, this Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir tells the story of his early life there.