imminency

Questions about imminency

What does imminency mean?

imminency means "the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon".

How many syllables are in imminency?

imminency has 4 syllables and divides as im-mi-nen-cy under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for imminency?

Close synonyms include imminence, imminentness, impendence, impendency, forthcomingness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is imminency a common word?

imminency is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.