Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

immanity

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: im-man-i-ty
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

4

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Great size; enormousness, hugeness.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

noun

Outrageous cruelty or savagery; enormity.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"[…] I alvvayes thought / It vvas both impious and vnnaturall, / That ſuch immanity and bloody ſtrife / Should reigne among Profeſſors of one Faith."
"‘Barbarous immanity’ (Melancthon terms it) ‘and folly to be deplored, so to contemn the percepts of health[…]’"
"[H]ad you ſtaid, you would have taken but little comfort in your life, in regard that ever ſince ther have bin the fearfulleſt diſtractions here that ever happen'd upon any part of the earth, a Beluin kind of immanity never rag'd ſo among men, inſomuch that the whole Countrey might have taken its appellation from the ſmalleſt part thereof, and be call'd the Iſle of Dogs; for all humanity, common honeſty, and that Manſuetude with other Moral Civilities which ſhould diſtinguiſh the rational Creature from other Animals, have been loſt here a good while; […]"

Etymology

From Latin immānitās.

Usage

Inflected Forms

immanities (plural)

Questions

What does immanity mean?: Great size; enormousness, hugeness.
Where does immanity come from?: From Latin immānitās.

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