eminent v. imminent v. immanent v. immanant

Eminent means ‘distinguished’ or ‘prominent’. Imminent means ‘about to happen’. The more esoteric word immanent refers to theories of the physical manifestation of the divine, and can be contrasted with transcendent. Immanant is a yet more recondite term from mathematics, defined as a generalized form of the determinant and permanent of a matrix.

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