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Imminence is the noun for this idea: the fact that an event, especially an unpleasant one, is hanging over you and will happen very soon. You meet it in news and essays — 'the imminence of war', 'the imminence of the deadline' — more than in kitchen talk. Everyday speech prefers 'it's about to happen' or the adjective imminent. The event is usually one you do not welcome, or at least one that presses on you. Though actually, you could say 'the imminence of her arrival' without it being grim; the word still carries a slight tightness, as if time has run short. It is a formal, serious noun.
迫近、即將發生（多指令人不快或時間很緊的事）
組成Borrowed from Late Latin imminentia. It is the noun that sits beside imminent: the 'about-to-happen-ness' of an event.
同家族的字
- imminentthe adjective this noun belongs with
- imminentlythe adverb: in a very short time
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
imminencenoun
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The state or condition of being about to happen; imminent quality.
- For three years there had been pestilence, and in the last of the three a famine; moreover, there was imminence of war.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。