Synonyms of immanent

immanent

adjective

ˈi-mə-nənt 

as in inherent

being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing

a question as to whether altruism is immanent in all individuals or is instead acquired from without

Synonyms & Similar Words

• inherent
• intrinsic
• integral
• essential
• constitutive
• constitutional
• natural
• innate
• hereditary
• indigenous
• inner
• inborn
• inherited
• fundamental
• elemental
• native
• inbred
• internal
• ingrained
• congenital
• hardwired
• distinctive
• basic
• characteristic
• peculiar
• built-in
• interior
• in one's blood
• ingrain
• inmost
• deep-rooted
• normal
• habitual
• typical
• inveterate
• regular

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• extrinsic
• adventitious
• foreign
• extraneous
• alien
• accidental
• incidental
• coincidental
• surface
• external
• superficial
• exterior
• acquired
• adscititious

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of immanent

Yet this tenuous compromise had already fractured due to other immanent factors, well before the recent targeting of artists and bohemians with a full-frontal assault mounted with the instruments of the fascist and protofascist regimes of long ago. — Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025

Repatriation, while an immanent and continuous process, is often relegated to secondary status by state actors that prioritize state building, stabilization, early recovery, and reconstruction. — Jesse Marks, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2025

Silently, austerely, his work seemed to prophesy a future state in which photography would colonize the immanent world and illusions overtake reality. — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023

But Pynchon’s theory of history offers its own immanent critique. — John Semley, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023

Blackness in abstraction, as the curator Adrienne Edwards has written, is a more capacious and immanent model of artistic creation than many of our institutions can handle. — Jason Farago, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022