From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Imminence \Im"mi*nence\, noun [Cf. F. imminence, L. imminentia, See {Imminent}.]
1. The condition or quality of being imminent; a threatening, as of something about to happen. The imminence of any danger or distress. --Fuller.
2. That which is imminent; impending evil or danger. ''But dare all imminence.'' --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon [syn: {imminency}, {imminentness}, {impendence}, {impendency}, {forthcomingness}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "imminence": access, accession, advance, advent, afflux, affluxion, aftertime, afteryears, anticipation, approach, approaching, appropinquation, approximation, appulse, bulldozing, by-and-by, certainty, coming, coming near, coming toward, commination, confidence, contemplation, course ahead, crystal ball, denunciation, determinism, distant future, empty threat, eventuality, expectancy, expectation, flowing toward, foreboding, foresight, forthcoming, forward look, future, future tense, futurism, futurity, hereafter, idle threat, immediate future, immediate prospect, implied threat, intimidation, menace, near future, nearing, nearness, offing, oncoming, outlook, posteriority, prediction, probability, project, promise of harm, prophecy, prospect, proximation, reliance, sword of Damocles, the future, the morrow, the sweet by-and-by, thought, threat, threateningness, threatfulness, time ahead, time just ahead, time to come, tomorrow, unastonishment, warning
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