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Definition of Immanent

1. Adjective. Of a mental act performed entirely within the mind. "A cognition is an immanent act of mind"

2. Adjective. Of qualities that are spread throughout something. "We think of God as immanent in nature"

Definition of Immanent

1. a. 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.

Definition of Immanent

1. Adjective. Naturally part of something; existing throughout and within something; inherent; integral; intrinsic; indwelling. ¹

2. Adjective. Restricted entirely to the mind or a given domain; internal; subjective. ¹

3. Adjective. (context: philosophy metaphysics theology of a deity) existing within and throughout the mind and the world; dwelling within and throughout all things, all time, etc. ''Compare'' (term transcendent). ¹

4. Adjective. (philosophy of a mental act) Taking place entirely within the mind of the subject and having no effect outside of it. Compare (term emanant), (term transeunt). ¹

5. Adjective. Being within the limits of experience or knowledge. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Immanent

1. existing within [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Immanent

immalleable immanacle immanacled immanacles immanacling immanant immanants immanation immanations immane

immanely immanence immanences immanencies immanency immanent (current term) immanent critique immanentise immanentised immanentises

immanentising immanentism immanentisms immanentist immanentistic immanentists immanentize immanentized immanentizes immanentizing

Literary usage of Immanent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace-book Designed for the Use by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1907)
"Notice the distinction between absolute and relative, between immanent and ... The immanent Attributes show us how completely matters of grace are Creation ..."

2. A Student's Philosophy of Religion by William Kelley Wright (1922)
"This is the hypothesis of an immanent God, ie of a God present in everything ... The conception of an immanent God will become clearer to the reader after ..."

3. Space, Time, and Deity: The Gifford Lectures at Glasgow, 1916-1918 by Samuel Alexander (1920)
"Thus, for instance, the passage of the thought of an action within our minds into the realisation of that thought in actual fact is (in part) immanent ..."

4. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"Their doctrine has been called immanent ^ immanent philosophy; the school is represented by Schuppe, Rehmke, ..."

5. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"Their doctrine has been called immanent ^е immanent philosophy ; the school is represented by Schuppe, Rehmke, ..."

6. Evolution and Spiritual Life by Stewart Andrew McDowall (1915)
"What is true of God is, thus, true of me also: God and I are both transcendent, I speak it reverently: God and I are both immanent and limited. ..."

7. The Metaphysics of the School by Thomas Harper (1884)
"In immanent actions the act, in the greater number of cases, exists in the same faculty that elicits it. But the faculty is 1 ' Quia actio voluntatis ..."

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