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Immanent vs Innermost - What's the difference?

immanent | innermost |

As adjectives the difference between immanent and innermost

is that immanent is naturally part of something; existing throughout and within something; inherent; integral; intrinsic; indwelling while innermost is farthest inside or towards the center or middle.

immanent

English

Adjective

(en adjective) (wikipedia immanent)
  • 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.

    • Related terms

    * immanence, immanency * immanently * immanentize * immanentization

    Usage notes

    * Not to be confused with .

    innermost

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Farthest inside or towards the center or middle.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}

    Antonyms

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