Noun
The condition or quality of being imminent; a threatening, as of something about to happen. The imminence of any danger or distress.
That which is imminent; impending evil or danger.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAuthoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. Susan Sontag
The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality. David Riesman
Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belabored by time, certain twilights and certain places try to tell us something, or have said something we should not have missed, or are about to say something; this imminence of a revelation which does not occur is, perhaps, the aesthetic phenomenon. Jorge Luis Borges
The perception that existence exists invalidates the normal personality,as does the imminence of death. Celia Green
How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well. William James
Witchcraft and Religious Imagery The Trinity and Mystic Pietà In addition to traditional, religious subjects, Baldung was concerned during these years with the profane theme of the imminence of death and with scenes of sorcery and witchcraft. Source: Internet