'Immediacy' definitions:
Definition of 'immediacy'
From: WordNet
noun
Lack of an intervening or mediating agency; "the immediacy of television coverage" [syn: immediacy, immediateness] [ant: mediacy, mediateness]
noun
Immediate intuitive awareness [syn: immediacy, immediate apprehension]
noun
The quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication" [syn: immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness, instancy]
Definition of 'Immediacy'
From: GCIDE
- Immediacy \Im*me"di*a*cy\, n. The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'immediacy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accessibility,
- actual presence,
- alacrity,
- approach,
- approximation,
- availability,
- being here,
- being there,
- case of need,
- closeness,
- confines,
- contiguity,
- contiguousness,
- convergence,
- decisiveness,
- dire necessity,
- dispatch,
- environs,
- exigence,
- exigency,
- existence,
- expedition,
- expeditiousness,
- foreground,
- hereness,
- immanence,
- immediate foreground,
- immediateness,
- imperative,
- imperativeness,
- indwellingness,
- inherence,
- instantaneity,
- instantaneousness,
- matter of necessity,
- momentaneousness,
- momentariness,
- nearness,
- neighborhood,
- nighness,
- occurrence,
- physical presence,
- precinct,
- predicament,
- presence,
- pressingness,
- pressure,
- promptitude,
- promptness,
- propinquity,
- proximity,
- punctuality,
- punctualness,
- purlieus,
- quickness,
- rapidity,
- readiness,
- simultaneity,
- speediness,
- spiritual presence,
- summariness,
- swiftness,
- thereness,
- ubiety,
- urgency,
- urgent need,
- vicinage,
- vicinity,
- whereness