Meaning & use
Emanent
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In philosophy, describing an action or process whose effect stays within the agent that produces it, rather than passing to something external.
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Scholastic philosophers distinguished emanent acts, like thinking, from transeunt acts, like striking a ball.
Contemplation was classified as an emanent activity because its effect remains within the mind of the thinker.
A note on using this word
Not to be confused with the more common "immanent"; "emanent" is a technical term from scholastic and medieval philosophy.
Words with a similar meaning
immanent
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Words with an opposite meaning
transeunt
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