[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]