• In law:
• Imminent threat, justification for the use of force in international law
• Right of self-defense for civilians requires a similar "imminent" threat
• Assault (tort), requires that harm is imminent, even if harm does not in fact occur
• Imminent lawless action, justification for restriction of free speech, superseding the earlier "clear and present danger"
• Exigent circumstance, justification for law enforcement to enter property without a warrant, may involve imminence
• End time, religious beliefs regarding the imminence or otherwise of the end of the world
• Second Coming of Jesus
• Imminence in the Olivet discourse, problematic passage in the Gospels
• Mayday (distress signal), meaning "grave and imminent danger"

Other uses of Imminent:

• Imminent, Belgian electronic noise music project
• Impact is Imminent, fourth album by thrash metal band Exodus
• Imminent Indeed, gothic adaptation of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera

See also

• Emergency management
• Warning system

Similar spellings

• Eminence (disambiguation)
• Immanence, existence and action within the mind or the world; as opposed to transcendence