Meaning & use
Imminency
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The state of being imminent; the quality of being about to happen very soon.
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The imminency of the deadline pushed the team to work through the night.
Officials debated the imminency of the threat before issuing an evacuation order.
A note on using this word
"Imminence" is the more standard and widely used noun form; "imminency" appears as a less common variant, often in legal or formal writing.
Words with a similar meaning
imminenceimpendingness
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Words with an opposite meaning
remoteness
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