12 June 2014
immanent
[im-uh-nuhnt]
adjective
1. remaining within; indwelling; inherent. He was unaware of the immanent power he had over his own life.
2. Philosophy . (of a mental act) taking place within the mind of the subject and having no effect outside of it. (Compare transeunt – producing an effect outside the mind).
3. Theology . (of the Deity) indwelling the universe, time, etc. (Compare transcendent – rise above or beyond the universe, time etc).
Origin:
1525–35; < Late Latin immanent- (stem of immanēns ), present participle of immanēre to stay in, equivalent to im- im-1 + man ( ēre ) to stay + -ent- -ent; see remain
Related forms
im·ma·nence, im·ma·nen·cy, noun
im·ma·nent·ly, adverb
non·im·ma·nence, noun
non·im·ma·nen·cy, noun
non·im·ma·nent, adjective
Can be confused: eminent, immanent, imminent.
Synonyms
1. innate, inborn, intrinsic.
Antonyms
1. extrinsic, acquired, superimposed.
Anagram
mean mint
Today’s aphorism
Anti-social behaviour is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
– Nikola Tesla
On this day
12 June – Russia Day, held every year in Russia since 1992 to celebrate the establishment of the Russian Federation, when the First Congress of the People’s Deputies of the Russian Federation adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic on 12 June 1990.
12 June 1929 – birth of Anne Frank, author of the ‘Diary of Anne Frank’. On her 13th birthday (1942) she was given a diary which she kept while the family was in hiding from the German Army. The family hid for two years in a secret annex behind her father’s office. In 1944, the family was discovered and sent to concentration camps. She died on 12 March 1945 in Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The diary was published in 1947.
12 June 1967 – the US Supreme Court declares that inter-racial marriages are Constitutional and cannot be banned by the states.
12 June 1991 – Boris Yeltsin becomes Russia’s first democratically elected President following the end of the Soviet Union.