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(5,519 posts)Great work!
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(26,623 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)im·ma·nent
/ˈimənənt/
adjective
existing or operating within; inherent.
"the protection of liberties is immanent in constitutional arrangements"
Similar:
inherent
intrinsic
innate
built-in
latent
essential
fundamental
basic
ingrained
natural
(of God) permanently pervading and sustaining the universe.
Similar:
pervasive
pervading
permeating
omnipresent
ubiquitous
present everywhere
permeative
suffusive
permeant
Opposite:
transcendent
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Similar-sounding words
immanent is sometimes confused with imminent
JHB
(37,160 posts)royable
(1,264 posts)Congress rightly using its constitutional power is both an imminent and an immanent threat to Trump.
But so many people mix up those terms I can see how it would be perceived as yet another typo. I probably should have done a "Tom Toles" and had a follow-up quip to better highlight that, but I didn't think of that at the time.