immanently
- adverb
- /ˈɪmənəntli/
- Formal
- The principles of justice should be understood as immanently tied to our society's values.
Examples
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They are experienced as resources that, immanently, have been disclosed or tapped from within oneself rather than as forces that, transcendently, have arrived from a region beyond oneself.
Academic text (1990) -
I trust in a God that is creative and compassionate posthumanity, both immanently expressed in our potential minds and bodies, and transcendently expressed in our actual world—we are thoughts of God, and we are a God in embryo.
Blog text (25) -
The absolute principle of judgment, the infinite, is found immanently, but in the conscious action of the finite subject.
Academic text (1993) -
For Blondel, the crucial link with Spinozistic philosophy is in the fact that the explanation of phenomena is sought immanently, within the system of phenomena.
Academic text (1993) -
Few objects more aptly symbolize a worldview in which all knowledge is perceived as immanently catalogable and leads to a unified, absolute system or truth.
Academic text (2003) -
Since thinking is the sort of operation that distinguishes the human species from all other animals, however, he argues that Aristotelian psychology requires that we be united with the possible intellect immanently, on the level of first actuality; that is, the level of the soul as the substantial form of an animal.
Academic text (2017) -
In this respect, the project of a cultural narratology can draw on Fredric Jameson's concept of the "ideology of the form," which implies that "form is immanently and intrinsically an ideology in its own right":
Academic text (2004) -
The beauty of nature is immanently present in every flower and tree.
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Many believe that creativity exists immanently within every person, waiting to be expressed.
Synonyms
Happens naturally as a basic part of something
In a way that happens inside a person, group, or place
Part of the basic nature of something
In a way that fits naturally into the whole
In a natural way that someone has from birth
In a way that is necessary for the whole to work
In a basic and essential way
Antonyms
How Inherent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Immanently comes from Latin parts in- 'in' and manēre 'to remain', the same root as remain. So, to say something is immanently present is to say it exists 'within' something or is part of it.