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IMPENDENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impendency mean? 

IMPENDENCY (noun)
  The noun IMPENDENCY has 1 sense:

1. the state of being imminent and liable to happen soonplay

  Familiarity information: IMPENDENCY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


IMPENDENCY (noun)


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 ("impendency" is a kind of...):

state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)

Derivation:

impend (be imminent or about to happen)

impendent (close in time; about to occur)


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