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IMPENDENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does impendence mean?
• IMPENDENCE (noun)
The noun IMPENDENCE has 1 sense:
1. the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon
Familiarity information: IMPENDENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being imminent and liable to happen soon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
forthcomingness; imminence; imminency; imminentness; impendence; impendency
Hypernyms ("impendence" is a kind of...):
state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)
Derivation:
impend (be imminent or about to happen)
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