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Imminent vs. Incipient — What's the Difference?

Imminent vs. Incipient — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Imminent and Incipient

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Imminent

About to occur; impending
In imminent danger.

Incipient

Beginning to exist or appear
Detecting incipient tumors.
An incipient personnel problem.

Imminent

About to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long.

Incipient

In an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence.
After 500 years, incipient towns appeared.
Employees shall be familiarized with the use of a fire extinguisher in incipient stage fire fighting.

Imminent

Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; - said especially of misfortune or peril.
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Incipient

(obsolete) A beginner.

Imminent

Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous.
Hairbreadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach.

Incipient

(grammar) A verb tense of the Hebrew language.

Imminent

With upon) Bent upon; attentive to.
Their eyes ever imminent upon worldly matters.
Three times to-dayYou have defended me from imminent death.
No story I unfold of public woes,Nor bear advices of impending foes.
Fierce faces threatening war.

Incipient

Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day.

Imminent

Close in time; about to occur;
Retribution is at hand
Some people believe the day of judgment is close at hand
In imminent danger
His impending retirement

Incipient

Only partly in existence; imperfectly formed;
Incipient civil disorder
An incipient tumor
A vague inchoate idea

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