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immanent

French, adjective/i.ma.nɑ̃/

immanent is spelled I-M-M-A-N-E-N-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 104,709th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Immanent is a French adjective meaning “immanent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est contenu dans la nature d’un être”.

What does immanent mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    immanent

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui est contenu dans la nature d’un être. 2. Qui réside dans. 3. Ce qualificatif est souvent employé à propos d’un principe de justice qui serait contenu dans les choses elles-mêmes et qui se dégagerait tôt ou tard du cours naturel des conséquences.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of immanent

  • immanente feminine
  • immanents masculine plural
  • immanentes feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce immanent?

  • /i.ma.nɑ̃/
  • \i.ma.nɑ̃\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to immanent

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is immanent in French?

immanent appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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