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Imminent vs Looming - What's the difference?

imminent | looming |

As an adjective imminent

is about to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long.

As a verb looming is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun looming is

the condition of something that looms or towers.

imminent

English

(Imminence)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • about to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long.
  • *
  • 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 * impending

    Derived terms

    * imminence * imminently

    looming

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The condition of something that looms or towers.
  • * (Thomas Carlyle)
  • But if no world exist in the man; if nothing but continents of empty vapour, of greedy self-conceits, commonplace hearsays, and indistinct loomings of a sordid chaos exist in him,