as in inherent
being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing
a question as to whether altruism is immanent in all individuals or is instead acquired from without
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Recent Examples of immanent
Yet this tenuous compromise had already fractured due to other immanent factors, well before the recent targeting of artists and bohemians with a full-frontal assault mounted with the instruments of the fascist and protofascist regimes of long ago.
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Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
Repatriation, while an immanent and continuous process, is often relegated to secondary status by state actors that prioritize state building, stabilization, early recovery, and reconstruction.
—Jesse Marks, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2025
Silently, austerely, his work seemed to prophesy a future state in which photography would colonize the immanent world and illusions overtake reality.
—Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
Since then, the opera house – though in so many places the art form is dismissed as an elitist art form with little relevance to today’s challenges and mindsets – has emerged as an immanent pole of strength, support, and solace for a city living under the clouds of war and aggression.
—Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2023
But Pynchon’s theory of history offers its own immanent critique.
—John Semley, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
But the experience of becoming a parent, as Nabokov describes it in Speak, Memory, suggests a third possibility—one which, if interpreted correctly, is possible to verify empirically: that death and rebirth are immanent in life itself.
—Ryan Ruby, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
Blackness in abstraction, as the curator Adrienne Edwards has written, is a more capacious and immanent model of artistic creation than many of our institutions can handle.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
Repatriation, while an immanent and continuous process, is often relegated to secondary status by state actors that prioritize state building, stabilization, early recovery, and reconstruction.
—Jesse Marks, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2025
Silently, austerely, his work seemed to prophesy a future state in which photography would colonize the immanent world and illusions overtake reality.
—Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
Since then, the opera house – though in so many places the art form is dismissed as an elitist art form with little relevance to today’s challenges and mindsets – has emerged as an immanent pole of strength, support, and solace for a city living under the clouds of war and aggression.
—Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2023
But Pynchon’s theory of history offers its own immanent critique.
—John Semley, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
But the experience of becoming a parent, as Nabokov describes it in Speak, Memory, suggests a third possibility—one which, if interpreted correctly, is possible to verify empirically: that death and rebirth are immanent in life itself.
—Ryan Ruby, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
Blackness in abstraction, as the curator Adrienne Edwards has written, is a more capacious and immanent model of artistic creation than many of our institutions can handle.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for immanent
Adjective
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The Taos is peppy enough to move along on the open road, considering the inherent limitations of the segment.—
James Raia,
Mercury News,
8 Feb. 2026
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Since 1987, governments around the world have separated the provision and regulation of air traffic control to eliminate the inherent conflict of interest in self-regulation.—
Marc Scribner,
Oc Register,
8 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The unique mineral composition also gives the stones an intrinsic ability to curl along their trajectory.—
Asuka Koda,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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So even Socrates, in his defense of the intrinsic goodness of justice, emphasizes the crucial role played by visibility and the corrupting power of hiddenness and anonymity.—
Paul Rosenzweig,
Washington Post,
9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Everyone who pays attention knows that Lehkonen is an excellent, all-around player and an integral part of the Avalanche machine.—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
7 Feb. 2026
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For luxury fashion content creator Cassie Thorpe, pajamas are an integral part of her daily routine.—
John Monaco,
InStyle,
7 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Accurate alignment of these motors is essential to ensure synchronized gripper motion when folding fabric.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Feb. 2026
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Remove permissions that are not essential.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Immanent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immanent. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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