[syn: immediacy, immediateness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Immediateness \Im*me"di*ate*ness\, n.
The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place,
or time; exemption from second or interventing causes. --Bp.
Hall.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
immediateness
n 1: the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of
their response"; "the instancy of modern communication"
[syn: immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness,
instancy]
2: lack of an intervening or mediating agency; "the immediacy of
television coverage" [syn: immediacy, immediateness]
[ant: mediacy, mediateness]