Imminent vs Proximate - What's the difference?
imminent | proximate |
about to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long.
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Close or closest; adjacent.
* J. S. Harford
* T. Burnet
(legal) Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation.
About to take place; impending.
(linguistics) A grammatical marker in the Algonquian (and some other) languages for a principal third person
As adjectives the difference between imminent and proximate
is that imminent is about to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long while proximate is close or closest; adjacent.As a noun proximate is
a grammatical marker in the Algonquian (and some other) languages for a principal third person.imminent
English
(Imminence)Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
* Imminent and eminent are very similar sounds, and are weak rhymes; in some dialects, these may be confused. A typo of either word may result in a correction to the wrong word by spellchecking software. Imminent'' is also sometimes confused with ''immanent . * Said of danger, threat and death.Synonyms
* inevitable * immediate * impendingDerived terms
* imminence * imminentlyExternal links
* * * ----proximate
English
Adjective
(-)- proximate ancestors
- the proximate natural causes of it [the deluge]
