Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or quality of being immediate, in any sense of that word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state of being
immediate ;immediacy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun lack of an intervening or mediating agency
- noun the quickness of action or occurrence
Etymologies
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Examples
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Also to be reckoned with, was the immediateness of his attack.
Reign of Hate 2010
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I find the physicality and immediateness of real life shopping makes it harder for me to resist my impulse buys.
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I really like Stom's, due to its style and feeling of immediateness.
Samson and Delilah James Gurney 2009
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In the enthusiasm of the struggle a hope arose that it would sweep away all the piled-up obstacles to human progress and usher in with a miraculous immediateness a new age.
The human spirit has still to find itself, its idea and its greater orientation Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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In the enthusiasm of the struggle a hope arose that it would sweep away all the piled-up obstacles to human progress and usher in with a miraculous immediateness a new age.
Archive 2008-12-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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Materialism (as evinced in Lockean associationism) "removes all reality and immediateness of perception, and places us in a dream-world of phantoms and spectres, the inexplicable swarm and equivocal generation of motions in our own brain"
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I like the immediateness you can get with the web.
Wild Videocast of Robert Scoble Interview — Climb to the Stars 2006
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He had not, but he expressed an unconquerable resolve so to do, and with immediateness.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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The sterilization issue has a unique immediateness to it.
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It had all the complications of the human mechanism, all the liability of getting out of repair, and it could not be replaced with the ease and immediateness of the human being.
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