Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being instantaneous; instantaneousness.
Wiktionary
- n. The condition of being instantaneous
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Quality of being instantaneous.
Examples
“But he's - you know, he's an interesting figure, because he sort of stands at the transition between the modern politics that we're experiencing today with social media and the instantaneity of the Internet and all the rest of that, and the kind of old-fashioned ward politics that predominated in the middle of the 20th century.”
“Notions of content and instantaneity are reoriented.”
“Indie bricks and mortar bookstores may not always be able to satisfy that desire for "search-find-click-done" instantaneity, but online search & shop can only take us so far.”
“Indie bricks and mortar bookstores may not always be able to satisfy that desire for "search-find-click-done" instantaneity, but online search shop can only take us so far.”
“Indie bricks and mortar bookstores may not always be able to satisfy that desire for "search-find-click-done" instantaneity, but they do have an edge in browseability.”
“Indie bricks and mortar bookstores may not always be able to satisfy that desire for search-find-click-done instantaneity, but online search shop can only take us so far.”
“It has a huge instantaneity: The average consumer scans 12 feet of shelf space per second.”
“The perspective of the real life-size space of a world still full, still whole, is now of necessity saddled with a relativistic perspective of time: that real time of an instantaneity that makes up for the definitive loss of geographical distances.”
“The right now is partially a function of technology, which makes instantaneity possible, and also a function of a culture that valorizes the up-to-the-minute above all else.”
“The fall feels like an instantaneity and an eternity.”
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