Crossword clues for immanent
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immanent \Im"ma*nent\, a. [L. immanens, p. pr. of immanere to remain in or near; pref. im- in + manere to remain: cf. F. immanent.] 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.
A cognition is an immanent act of mind.
--Sir W.
Hamilton.
An immanent power in the life of the world.
--Hare.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"indwelling, inherent," 1530s, via French, from Late Latin immanens, present participle of Latin immanere "to dwell in, remain in," from assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + manere "to dwell" (see manor). Contrasted with transcendent. Related: Immanently.
Wiktionary
a. 1 naturally part of something; existing throughout and within something; inherent; integral; intrinsic; indwelling. 2 restricted entirely to the mind or a given domain; internal; subjective. 3 (context philosophy metaphysics theology of a deity English) existing within and throughout the mind and the world; dwelling within and throughout all things, all time, etc. ''Compare'' (term: transcendent). 4 (context philosophy of a mental act English) Taking place entirely within the mind of the subject and having no effect outside of it. Compare (term: emanant), (term: transeunt). 5 Being within the limits of experience or knowledge.
WordNet
adj. of a mental act performed entirely within the mind; "a cognition is an immanent act of mind" [syn: subjective] [ant: transeunt]
of qualities that are spread throughout something; "ambition is immanent in human nature"; "we think of God as immanent in nature"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "immanent".
The immanent production of subjectivity in the society of control corresponds to the axiomatic logic of capital, and their resemblance indicates a new and more complete compatibility between sovereignty and capital.
In the fifteenth century, numerous authors demonstrated the coherence and revolutionary originality of this new immanent ontological knowledge.
On the immanent relation between politics and ontology, see Antonio Negri, The Savage Anomaly, trans.
Intellectual-Principle in the sense that the soul, possessing that principle as immanent to its being, has an inborn desire of intellectual activity and of movement in general.
The history of dogma was, as it were, shut out by the watchword of the immanent development of the spirit in Christianity.
Every physical comportment is the immanent product of a struggle or a pact among competing demonic forces: hence the violent, yet often surprisingly delicate, ambivalence with which the body expresses heterogeneous or conflicting intentions.
SPIRIT OF THE YEARS A hot ado goes forward here to-day, If I may read the Immanent Intent From signs and tokens blent With weird unrest along the firmament Of causal coils in passionate display.
For in the case of the five pericarps this number is a quality immanent in the apple, which it shares with the whole species of Rosaceae.
Immanent Will, that pervade all things, ramifying through the whole army, NAPOLEON included, and moving them to Its inexplicable artistries.
Spontaneously arising, a vast immanent expanse, beyond expression, Where neither samsara nor nirvana exist.
In those origins of modernity, then, knowledge shifted from the transcendent plane to the immanent, and consequently, that human knowledge became a doing, a practice of transforming nature.
Intellectual-Principle which we have found to be identical with the truths constituting the objects of intellection, the world of Primals and Reality: for this Intellectual-Principle, by very definition, cannot be outside of itself, the Intellectual Reality: self-gathered and unalloyed, it is Intellectual-Principle through all the range of its being--for unintelligent intelligence is not possible--and thus it possesses of necessity self-knowing, as a being immanent to itself and one having for function and essence to be purely and solely Intellectual-Principle.
For through the savage trumpet-blasts and rude and lumbering rhythms, through the cymbal-crashing Mongol marches and warm, uncouth peasant chants that are his music, there surges that vision, that sense of immanent glory, that fortifying asseveration.
For whatsoever has primal Being must be immanent to the Firsts and be a First-Eternity equally with The Good that is among them and of them and equally with the truth that is among them.
Intellectual-Principle which we have found to be identical with the truths constituting the objects of intellection, the world of Primals and Reality: for this Intellectual-Principle, by very definition, cannot be outside of itself, the Intellectual Reality: self-gathered and unalloyed, it is Intellectual-Principle through all the range of its being--for unintelligent intelligence is not possible--and thus it possesses of necessity self-knowing, as a being immanent to itself and one having for function and essence to be purely and solely Intellectual-Principle.