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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. lack of an intervening or mediating agency;
- Example: "the immediacy of television coverage"
[syn: immediacy, immediateness]

2. immediate intuitive awareness;
[syn: immediacy, immediate apprehension]

3. the quickness of action or occurrence;
- Example: "the immediacy of their response"
- Example: "the instancy of modern communication"
[syn: immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness, instancy]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Immediacy \Im*me"di*a*cy\, n. The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

immediacy n 1: lack of an intervening or mediating agency; "the immediacy of television coverage" [syn: immediacy, immediateness] [ant: mediacy, mediateness] 2: immediate intuitive awareness [syn: immediacy, immediate apprehension] 3: the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication" [syn: immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness, instancy]