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impending

adj
/ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ/

Etymology

From impend + -ing.

  1. borrowed from impendere
  2. formed as impending — “impend + -ing”

Definitions

  1. Approaching

    Approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen.

    • I have no time right now because of an impending paper submission deadline.

  2. present participle and gerund of impend

    • The hurricane is impending.

  3. Something that impends or threatens

    Something that impends or threatens; an expected event.

    • Although I do think about death quite regularly, my intense fear of lesser impendings has taught me that the only way I will survive it is to remain objective […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at impending. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at impending. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at impending

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA