Impendence

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Impendence \Im*pend"ence\, Impendency \Im*pend"en*cy\, n.
     The state of impending; the state of being imminent and
     liable to happen soon; also, that which impends. "Impendence
     of volcanic cloud." --Ruskin.
  
     Syn: imminence, imminency, impendence, forthcomingness.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  impendence
       n : the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon [syn:
           {imminence}, {imminency}, {imminentness}, {impendency}, {forthcomingness}]