Dormant vs Immanent - What's the difference?
dormant | immanent |
Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
* Burke
(heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
Naturally part of something; existing throughout and within something; inherent; integral; intrinsic; indwelling.
Restricted entirely to the mind or a given domain; internal; subjective.
(philosophy, metaphysics, theology, of a deity) existing within and throughout the mind and the world; dwelling within and throughout all things, all time, etc. Compare (transcendent).
(philosophy, of a mental act) Taking place entirely within the mind of the subject and having no effect outside of it. Compare (emanant), (transeunt).
Being within the limits of experience or knowledge.
As adjectives the difference between dormant and immanent
is that dormant is inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended while immanent is naturally part of something; existing throughout and within something; inherent; integral; intrinsic; indwelling.dormant
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Alternative forms
* dormaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.
- The bank account was dormant ; there had been no transactions in months.
- This volcano is dormant but not extinct.
- It is by lying dormant a long time, or being very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people.
- a lion dormant