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Princeton's WordNet

  1. immanence, immanencynoun

    the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain

Wiktionary

  1. immanencenoun

    The state of being immanent; inherency.

  2. immanencenoun

    The state of dwelling within and not extending beyond a given domain.

  3. immanencenoun

    The concept of the presence of deity in and throughout the real world; the idea that God is everywhere and in everything. Contrast transcendence.

  4. Etymology: From immanent.

Wikipedia

  1. Immanence

    The doctrine or theory of immanence holds that the divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world. It is held by some philosophical and metaphysical theories of divine presence. Immanence is usually applied in monotheistic, pantheistic, pandeistic, or panentheistic faiths to suggest that the spiritual world permeates the mundane. It is often contrasted with theories of transcendence, in which the divine is seen to be outside the material world.

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  1. immanence

    Immanence refers to the philosophical and metaphysical concept of a divine presence existing in, and extending into, all parts of the created universe. It suggests that the divine or spiritual realm permeates and pervades all aspects of the physical, observable world. The term comes from the Latin "immanere", meaning 'to remain within'. It is often contrasted with transcendence, the belief that God is fundamentally separate from and beyond the physical universe. Different religions and philosophies interpret and emphasize the concept of immanence differently.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Immanencenoun

    alt. of Immanency

Wikidata

  1. Immanence

    Immanence refers to philosophical and metaphysical theories of divine presence in which the divine is seen to be manifested in or encompassing the material world. It is often contrasted with theories of transcendence, in which the divine is seen to be outside the material world. It is usually applied in monotheistic, pantheistic, pandeistic, or panentheistic faiths to suggest that the spiritual world permeates the mundane. Major faiths commonly devote significant philosophical efforts to explaining the relationship between immanence and transcendence, but these efforts run the gamut from casting immanence as a characteristic of a transcendent God to subsuming transcendent personal gods in a greater immanent being to approaching the question of transcendence as something which can only be answered through an appraisal of immanence.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Immanence

    the idea that the creative intelligence which made, with the regulative intelligence which governs, the universe, is inherent in it and pervades it.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of immanence in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of immanence in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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