immanence
noun
im·ma·nence
ˈi-mə-nən(t)s 
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With TikTok, however, transcendence is exchanged for immanence within the app.
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WIRED, 6 Nov. 2022
His films stand as proof of his belief in the immanence of the material world, a place where the only higher powers are the laws of physics: speed, weight, force, gravity.
—Geoffrey O’Brien, The New York Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2022
Eventually, the cuts between eerily still shots of rippling waters or windswept trees will emerge as driven by a desire to capture the immanence of the natural world, to relish in its beauty and to remain awestruck by its resilience.
—Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 5 Feb. 2022
Departing from Christian doctrines that saw space to be empty of everything but God’s immanence, Newton eventually posited that the void was filled with ether.
—Max Norman, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
Here, the simultaneous transcendence and immanence of God suggests that God cannot be contained in any physical place.
—Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Jan. 2022
Yet a feeling of immanence, however thwarted, is a near-constant in Schrader’s film.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2021
Who but Hemingway would have zeroed in like this? Death—the sight of it, the smell of it, the immanence of it—was his fetish.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2021
All of it imploding into a sort of hectic immanence, a frantic collapse of timelines.
—Wired, 27 Nov. 2019
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WIRED, 6 Nov. 2022
His films stand as proof of his belief in the immanence of the material world, a place where the only higher powers are the laws of physics: speed, weight, force, gravity.
—Geoffrey O’Brien, The New York Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2022
Eventually, the cuts between eerily still shots of rippling waters or windswept trees will emerge as driven by a desire to capture the immanence of the natural world, to relish in its beauty and to remain awestruck by its resilience.
—Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 5 Feb. 2022
Departing from Christian doctrines that saw space to be empty of everything but God’s immanence, Newton eventually posited that the void was filled with ether.
—Max Norman, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
Here, the simultaneous transcendence and immanence of God suggests that God cannot be contained in any physical place.
—Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Jan. 2022
Yet a feeling of immanence, however thwarted, is a near-constant in Schrader’s film.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2021
Who but Hemingway would have zeroed in like this? Death—the sight of it, the smell of it, the immanence of it—was his fetish.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2021
All of it imploding into a sort of hectic immanence, a frantic collapse of timelines.
—Wired, 27 Nov. 2019
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“Immanence.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/immanence. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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