Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The condition or quality of being immediate.
- n. Lack of an intervening or mediating agency; directness: the immediacy of live television coverage.
- n. Something immediate, as in importance.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The character of being immediate.
- n. Direct relation or connection; freedom from any intervening medium.
- n. Specifically, the condition of being in direct relation with a head or chief; the feudal rank next to that of the suzerain.
- n. In metaphysics, direct presence; spontaneous existence, not dependent on anything; absolute or non-relative being.
Wiktionary
- n. the quality of being immediate, of happening right away
- n. lack of mediation
- n. philosophy immediate awareness or apprehension
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. immediate intuitive awareness
- n. lack of an intervening or mediating agency
- n. the quickness of action or occurrence
Examples
“Prof. Carl G. Jung refers to what he calls the immediacy of the Negro race.”
“Such immediacy is clearly going to overwhelm any subtle long-term psychological effects.”
“If true, this would give a certain immediacy for any effort to fracture the insurgency.”
“This immediacy is due in no small part to another artist I'd never really taken seriously enough: Penélope Cruz.”
“The immediacy is far scarier than simply telling someone about being held captive.”
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“It occurred to me then that an RSS-only publishing tool, though it may seem daft to some now, could become an ideal publishing platform for many purposes where immediacy is all that matters.”
“The sense of immediacy is quite important in blogs.”
“To me, the immediacy is key and provides a venue for contributors like myself, who would not tolerate being edited, as my opinions are sometimes considered way out there.”
“Their sense of immediacy is not the same as we adhere to in Canada and the US.”
“As many critics have observed, one of the stylistic techniques employed by letter-writers to give the impression of presence and immediacy is to mimic the informality of oral speech (Altman 136, Porter 4, Lowenthal 29-30).”
Colonial Correspondence: The Letters of George Bogle from Bengal, Bhutan and Tibet, 1770-81
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘immediacy’.
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Here and Now
Words related to the mental state of "being in the present in the moment".
improvisation, nolens volens, extempore, autoschediastic, in medias res, willy-nilly, egersis, immanence, nunc pro tunc, spontaneity, observant, concentration and 55 more...
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new words
Tacit, collusion, immediacy, cask, scrivener, swaddle, riposte, foodie, pumpernickel, impetus, tight-knit, prosletyze and 16 more...
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Mogeltron
Miscellaneous idiolect that could be used to assemble a Whichbe simulator.
point of skew, character as fate, doubt for doubt, story of my life, cumulative effect, default settings, reasonable, or tr..., take care, relative proportion, is that so, cognitive bias, and whatnot and 41 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for immediacy.
Ido Berger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logical_Song Jun 26, 2010