imminence

From Late Latin imminentia.

imminence (usually uncountable, plural imminences)

1. The state or condition of being about to happen; imminent quality.
   • 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 61:

     For three years there had been pestilence, and in the last of the three a famine; moreover, there was imminence of war.

Borrowed from Latin imminentia.

• IPA^(key): /i.mi.nɑ̃s/

imminence f (plural imminences)

1. imminence

• imminent
  • imminemment

• “imminence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.