the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The state of impending; the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon; also, that which impends.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The state of being impendent or overhanging; a menacing attitude.
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n. the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon
Word Usage
"We fear that she is right that the Obama administration's impendence makes the economic picture notably bleaker -- but we hope that she is wrong, and in any case such an opinion does not belong in a news story."